Selective memory: The U.S. and Iran
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🗓️ 10 January 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi, this is Vanessa Williams from the Washington Post. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, it's Philip Rucker at the Washington Post. |
| 0:11.0 | Do you have a minute? |
| 0:12.0 | Hi, this is Dan Zagfe. |
| 0:13.0 | This is Post Reports. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Martine Powers. |
| 0:18.0 | It's Friday, January 10. |
| 0:24.0 | Today, seven decades of history between the US and Iran |
| 0:28.0 | and what that history could mean for what's to come. |
| 0:36.0 | So what do you think the average American knows about the history |
| 0:40.0 | of the relationship between the US and Iran other than the movie Argo? |
| 0:45.0 | Actions of Iran have shocked the civilized world. |
| 0:51.0 | It's interesting that you mention Argo. |
| 0:54.0 | The embassy has been seized and more than six take American citizens. |
| 0:59.0 | I can't even be held as hostages before going to go. |
| 1:02.0 | Because I think that for the majority of Americans, |
| 1:05.0 | it was the embassy takeover on November 4, 1979, |
| 1:10.0 | that most people think of as the sort of beginning of our problematic relationship with Iran. |
| 1:20.0 | And I know some of those former hostages. |
| 1:24.0 | And I once asked one of them, |
| 1:28.0 | who's become a friend, what he thought of that film. |
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