allowedis: he never ayatollah khomheini to reenter. he exiled him 14 years earlier and for most of the exile he was in iraq in a town we have all become familiar with over the last few years, where he would be visited regularly from pilgrims and he had a great religious influence there. he was operating out of a shrine domee first --, the gold shrine issued during much of the fighting with american. was set upbeen -- he there for most of his exile. then the shah approached saddam dispel and asked him to the shah. done in,ey wanted him they would do that too. but the shah said it no, he would be worse as a martyr. he wanted him out of the region so he could not have these pilgrims coming under his influence all the time. was, drive him to the west so that he would become a joke in western eyes and become nothing. in fact, when ayatollah khomheini was kicked out of iraq and had no place to go except paris, he flew to paris on the day that the shah called the american ambassador and told him to watch and see, this guy will disappear from

he talks about ayatollah khomheini and steps taken by the carter administration to handle the crisis. the capitola book cafe hosted this event in 2004. mr. harris: ok. it is a pleasure to be back at the capitola book cafe. i have had a number of pleasant experiences here before. i am glad to be back for my book. this is my