the oil rich part, iran, which they call arabist on which the persians call khuzestan. and this photograph was given to me by the relative of one of the people involved. i mean, how it was smuggled out, it's not clear to me because must have come from the person organizing the whole operation. it was in fact saddam hussein. this whole operation was an iraqi plot to destabilize the iranian government. saddam hussein had worked out that it was an obvious thing to discover that he could use this arab protest movement in kazakhstan as a way of getting at the ayatollah. so in a way, what you're about to see the story we're about to tell is really the first battle of the war which would erupt five months after this. so saddam hussein bankrolled, financed, equipped and encouraged this tire operation and. he did it through two people. e man in the middle, who would go on to become the world's most wanted terrorist, abu, who organized a string of appalling terrorist atrocity. it is in the in the late seventies and, 1980s, he was living in baghdad and working for saddam as a kind

today it's khuzestan. it was a, you know, oil producing region. there was a lot of pressure on the british to free those hostages. the sas went in after six days. and this, of course, was weeks after the failed desert eagle when special forces were launched to rescue the american hostages in tehran. so just days after the failure of the u.s. military to rescue those 52 americans in tehran, the british had a much different outcome. they were very successful. it helped give margaret thatcher, you know, her her nickname, the iron lady. and certainly that led into, you know, the reagan administration as well. and of course, those american hostages weren't released until minutes after ronald reagan became president. so, as we've heard from other guests this evening, that certainly president carter was known more for his failures for his stagflation, for the, you know, how things went in the country. but certainly after his time in office, his work with habitat for humanity and certainly the camp david accords in 1978, when for 13 days he had the presid