. >> the portions of the left and the right that united behind khomeini have one thing in common. the hatred of the iranian police. >> he had been exiled by the shah and became a symbol. >> the idea that khomeini represented was really not known. so washington was very uninformed about what was going on. >> distinguished leaders. >> it was new year's 1978 and i was in tehran. jimmy carter was visiting. the shah was still there. and jimmy carter famously referred to iran as being -- >> an island of stability. in one of the more troubled areas of the world. >> this, of course, was seen by the iranian people as further evidence that jimmy carter was a close friend and ally of the shah. >> this is a great tribute to you, your majesty, and to your leadership and to the respect and admiration and love which your people give to you. >> so jimmy carter, even before the shah fled iran was seen as an enemy of the iranian people. got to remember, the kind of situation the shah was in. here is a guy who has been on the throne for 37 years, has been through a number of assassination attempts a

. >> the iranian people are united and they believe and all of them are behind khomeini's leadership. and as a iranian, i will say khomeini is my leader and i believe in his leadership. >> back then, the speeches of ayatollah khomeini were recorded on audio cassettes, which would be smuggled into iran, and passed from hand to hand, recorded and re-recorded again. and those sermons, the political lectures that the ayatollah khomeini gave from his place of safety on the outskirts of paris, they created a revolutionary atmosphere inside iran. and yes, we were slow to recognize just how powerful that movement was. >> if he was a hero when he returned to iran, he becomes in a matter of days very nearly a god. >> this was the first time that the united states had ever encountered political islam. >> the women, prodded into the future by the shah, voluntarily donned the chador. >> and we were really surprised by what happened. >> politically, it was absolutely fascinating because the shah had been deposed. he had fled the country and iran was in the throes of building something called the is

yoayoaltayatollah khomeini, made comments while meeting with a group of yemeni clerics in oman. help us draw all of this together and make sense of it, what is the latest, the ceasefire deal calls for end to hostilities but doesn't require any armed group to leave. >> yes, that's right. and that's why it is the main sticking point. that deal is initial, it is not final. and we understand that tribemen as well as the houthis with the local governor, they are trying to sort out the details later on, today. now, it is a sticking point because fighting could erupt any moment. there was fighting for last three days and there is an update on the death toll. it has risen to at least 40 people killed in the last three days or so. so it's a very dangerous situation and i think they are trying to agree on the final touches and details required in the houthis out because the tribesmen's main point is that the houthis have to leave the city of ib, otherwise they will continue fighting them. >> what are we to make of this statement of support for the houthis from iran? houthis are a minority

pretty good job of seeming reasonable and moderate but the decision maker is the supreme leader ali khomeiniif the deal we've seen is going to allow them to continue to enrich uranium, if it allows them to continue to seek to have centrifuges that do enrich uranium under supervision, if it doesn't include anything on ballistic missiles and it doesn't deal with the iranian efforts on weaponization in the past, would wouldn't he take that doo snell. >> it would be wise for them to take that deal because it allow them to lift sanctions. khamenei has called for multiplying it by ten. he's called for the mass production of ballistic missiles, not simply maintaining a program and khamenei's calculation is he has never been made to pay a price by this administration, not even the sanctions. he also thinks he has a two-year window of opportunity where he will have an american president who certainly will take no serious further action and this is his breakout window. >> but he doesn't need to break out. why not go to the cusp, right up to the edge if those are the terms that i described before are t

and third is the experience of khomeini which you have correctly described and whichst the view of the present theocracy which is that it's the islamic face, it's the governing guide, should be the governing guide of iranian policy and, therefore, of the united states. it's a permanent enemy. and the view i express here is that iran has to make a choice. it doesn't have to announce the choice, but it has to make a perceptible choice which of these three models it is following. if it -- and one has to remember one other thing about iran. of all the countries that were conquered by islam, iran is the only one in the middle east anyway, the only one that did not give up its language, nor its culture and that it maintained the iranian culture and language. it did not adapt, adapt arabic. so it's always a distinct feeling of something special about iran. so at the end of november, we are going to be confronting -- we as a country -- the end of the culmination of the negotiations about the nuclear weapons. and they will have to be judged by one's assessment about what the ultimate purpose of

a spokesman for the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini said: let's go live to sanaa, and oma al saleh is there. before talking about the significance of the iranian statement, let's talk about the moonumental task laying ahead of the new prime minister. >> yes, he faces a huge challenge, and he arrived in sanaa, and we understand, he's already talking to different officials within the government from his own party from the different factions, if you will, and we understand that it could take days, if not weeks, for him to achieve his mission. he needs to pleas almost everywhere, and needs to keep the country together. the biggest problem he faces is that the advance of the houthis, they are in control of the capital, they took over key government buildings, as well as military bases. so they are a force to be reckoned with. now, the houthis have a stronghold in the north of the country, in the province of sadr. they are well armed. fighters estimate between 15,000 up to 50,000, and they have convention at weapons, how will the new prime minister face the challenge remains to be seen.

went khomeini came to power we had orders for new fuel for that we have to. but the u.s.government and stopped. they didn't deliver the fuel. they had a great time. eventually want to buy it from argentina. they said we've got to be self-sufficient. that's one reason why it started enrichment, but it's right, i agree with rose pretty much that we wait for the royal suspicion when they go for enrichment on a large scale and produce much, much more than they could possibly need for the two reactors that are in bushehr and one of russian fuel and for a long time. they don't really, didn't really need the. on the other hand, for the rest of the world to say to the iranians, that you contract with russia, why don't you trust that? the western world did not tell the germans they should rely on russian gas. i think that's a little week argument. i can see an element in this, that of pride and humiliation. iranian's feel -- [inaudible] was kicked out by the foreign ilk. that's the story they never forget the eu is never forgets the seizure, the occupation of the american embassy.

i ran twice as a republican in this town and that was like being the ayatollah khomeini in 1974 and 78ore of a center person than the republican party was. in those days we were a more moderate party. when the party got taken over, i didn't want to be part of that, i ran as an independent. there's no republican way to pick up snow, and there's no democratic way to build a home for the elderly, but there's a right way to do it. john f. kennedy said that, and he also said, there's no republican way, no democratic way. there's the right way. we shouldn't start blaming, we should accept responsibility for our future. i believe there's no republican way to pick up snow, and no democratic way to pick up garbage. we're in it together. and i've been elected six times as an independent. i always had strong democratic support. >> thank you, mayor. we got to have dinner if you win this thing. buddy seeiancey up for a big fight. >>> up next, the round table on income and equality and how bei democrats hope to use the issue to win this fight. you're watching "hardball," a place for politics. then t

so hatred of the west, a word that was used by the grand ayatollah khomeini.ainst the world trade organization, against mcdonald's, a lot of the kfc restaurants have been blown up in pakistan. they don't like the idea of barbie dolls in some countries. they see it as cultural invasion. and they're against it. >> in going through the 15 reasons why terrorism exists, you outline one of the reasons is financial reward. how often does that happen? >> that doesn't happen very often. most terrorists don't get paid for what they do. i give you the example of the palestinian suicide bombers. they don't get financial gain, but they know their family, most of whom live in poverty, get some financial reward. in south america, there is a group in colombia called farc, the colombian revolution, and they're notorious for abducting people for ransom. they will abduct political figures. >> all terrorism is not acts of violence. sometimes it's internet terrorism, banking terrorism. there are other things to put fear and oppression to people. is this going to become a new wave

. >> you can listen to your favorite ayatollah khomeini raps like they got some party mixes of him. death. i mean, it's -- >> the unplugged album. acoustics. >> the fan who disappeared from the game -- >> where did this guy go? >> found safe after walking and hitchhiking 130 miles to the town of pueblo, colorado. >> if i were going to go somewhere, i would go to pueblo or boulder. >> found in a k-mart parking lot. despite extreme fatigue, was in good condition. he told authorities he, quote, had his fill of football and decided to go for a walk. >> it's happened to us all. 180-mile walk. >> he was not following media reports and was unaware people were searching for him. >> something else going on. >> the game didn't go as well as you expected. you're like, i'm going to go walk 180 miles. >> he said he got very little cash, no cell phone, and just walked 130 miles. something else is -- >> i'm kind of jealous. >> we need a follow-up on this story. >> "wall street journal." a new study out of australia catting doubt on the theory of the so-called 27 club. that's the age when rock musi