Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini (1979) | 60 Minutes Archive
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- Just two weeks after the Iran Hostage Crisis began in November 1979, Mike Wallace spoke with Ayatollah Khomeini in this classic interview.
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I remember watching this when it first aired. Everyone was watching it.
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I remember as a youngster watching this too when it first aired. Everything in this story makes much more sense to me as an adult.
Impressive. Thank you for letting me see this after almost 5 decades. 🙏
Fact: That translator who became foreign minister (Ghotbzadeh Esfahani) was later hanged for treason a few years after the revolution
He was shot
Isn't his name Ghotbzadeh Sadegh?
@@Ohana9999 yes
Really? Omg
Shot or hanged? Or both?
I appreciate these old uploads. Thanks!!!
Your most welcome
@@bobfitz8701 your most welcome as well
Thank you 60 Minutes
thank you for uploading the iran series videos, it's completely related to what is happening there
I remember those days. This was a difficult interview, but done civilly by both men.
You could tell this was a very tense and challenging interview. Wallace was very respectful and professional. He knew how to be civil but was trying to ask difficult questions at the same time.
Nothing civil was ever done by Kohmeini.
Khomeini barely knew how to compose basic sentences in Persian
Civil?! What you on about?! He. Can't answer even a simple question without claiming this is Eslam doing , he was a crazy mad man who destroyed my country
@@ilovepeoplebro 😂😂😂😂😂 ....n still d rule d persia 😂😂😂😂
Thanks for sharing this video.
Thanks for making this video available. I just wish there were a little better interpreters at the time on both sides.
Long live Iran 🇮🇷
Khomeini would not allow anyone else to interpret. Only his own stooges! I hope if there is life after this, he is burning in hell!
@@LosAngeles-Skincare
i don't know much about tha matter. but you seem to want him to suffer. can you please elaborate on why ?
5:42 LOL. The way mike turns to the translator after asking the question is hilarious!
It gets even funnier if you knew that Khomeini could somehow understand what he was saying but didnt give a damn
I love how he use (we are muslims) alote.
Yes, many terrorists do that.
Mike Wallace all thriller, no filler
...I'm expecting him to say " Bond, James Bond "
Khomeini. Ruhollah Khomeini.
Mike Wallace, shaken not stirred. @@blitzzkrieg1400
Correct me if I'm wrong, was this scene not in the movie The Insider?
Or was it in Lebanon?
I was thinking the same thing
No it was in star wars 😂
Countries are governed by leaders n politicians iran is the only country governed by intellectuals-
Long live iran
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
reminiscent indeed, a big circle of every ． things!
Surely an open discussion would have achie]ved far more than having questions screened beforehand.
I agree but did you hear all of the questions that WOULDN'T be answered?
Not really. Oriana Fallaci tried that and while asking a question, she removed her scarf. Khomeini discontinued.
السلام عليك يا إمام 🇮🇶❤️🇮🇷
Where are these 60 minutes? I always get like 15 minutes of them.
Hahaaa
lol so true
Yes. Today is history. I remember it watching on the new. I was 73 years old.
How Fake You Like To Say🤡🤡
Couldn't they have used a better interpreter, the Ayatollah's interpreter was very fluent.
“ Islam protects the prisoners, and Islam is humanity" ya imam
Yeah just don't protest against them like now because you'll get beat and shot like all the protesters during the protests.
Your Imam talked from behind. Don't take him too seriously.
@taratara3986 your media talked from behind..don't take it too seriously..
@@Ali_alrida12121Noone takes the media seriously
@@taratara3986 do zionists talk from the same place
_This is a certified Hood Classic._
9:16 I’m sorry but seeing this upsets me the United States should have listened to George Washington when he said we should stay out of foreign affairs. They would be no need to compromise if you wasn’t there on the first place.
Guess who the Minister of Women's Affairs in Iran is? One of the student leaders who took the Embassy!
And her son lives in America😂😂😂
@@Star_sky23 Yep, many of the regime prefer to educate their kids in The Great Satan. But they are the privileged 10% who put up with the Islamic regime because they are making millions out of it. When the regime falls, these Iranians will be the first on the planes out to US, Canada and UK, just like when the Shah fell. I lived there for a few years until recently and have a Persian wife.
And she has no power at all, she is just there to show everybody "Look we made a woman a minister".
And majority of Iranian people who are against the regime are suffering inside the country.
@@lsakvidovic8187 Have been for over 40 yrs. My wife is Persian. We have close friends who served time Evin prison. It took them two months in hospital to recover after one month in Evin.
As a Muslim i can't agree with a lot of what his revolution has done to Iran (it's not like the Shah was better, but that's a separate discussion), but I can certainly see why people were so drawn to him. He radiates a quiet dignity and charisma
Bro these people excecuted over 20000 political prisoners. They are not better than America or Israel. I highly doubt that Islam agrees to this evil regime.
The Iranian guy sitting besides Khomeini is already translating everything Khomeini says in English. So why did the 60 Minutes use another translator voice in the background?
The translator in the room waits for AK to finish his hole speach before translating, that takes time.
then use his translation not someone else's@@NinossoniN
They said some answers were scripted
Why wrong translation 60 minutes?
The face of evil. He is still burning in hell.
The most daring interviewer I have ever seen
Interview with Al-Shaytan... black turban and glimmering hatred 😂😂
Or with Bin Laden in 1997 or Saddam in 1992
@@pallasathena1369What about interview with George W.Bush, Biden, Sarkozy ?
yes the sheytaan is in suites likes of Your Leaders@@pallasathena1369
Why anyone would follow this guy is beyond me. He truly found his niche in getting students to blindly follow him.
He unified the resistance,the revolution was a popular revolution with socialists,communists,anarchists and laïc nationalists but just after getting rid the Shah,he started the purge and the war that the US started against him by using Iraq helped him a lot on getting rid of the opposition by accusing them of working for Saddam.
The fact is that the embassy occupation occurred without his knowledge and approval. There were many factions in iran, and khomaini had to support the invasion of embassy in order to maintain his position. The whole invasion and hostage taking was very bad for iran and the Iranian regime but they got drag into it by the more radical faction of the revolutionaries. Also the 1953 coup is seared in Iranian psyche. In retrospect the new revolutionary govt should have just asked western diplomats to leave immediately so as to prevent hostage taking. It was the tail that waggd the dog!
not blindly
@@ArashRezaee
aksariate mardom ahmagh boodan
He was the only thing representing an opposition to the Shah at that time that's why the Iranian people choose him
That interpreter’s tone of voice is angry ! It’s almost comical 😂
It's not anger he is trying to be a good voice over actor interpreter... He is auditioning 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Takes one to know one
Sean Connery plays a bloody villain called Ayatollah Khomeini in this movie filmed in Iran.
America, shaken not stirred.
My first thought exactly....such a resemblance!!!
😂😂😂😂
Yep foto copy
They look similar don’t they 😂
Why would any journalist agree to these terms for the interview?
Because it was a monumental moment in world history?
When "Journalism" had integrity...
Interestingly, depending on which position you already agree with, the same journalistic piece will be seen as either honest or dishonest.
Well they certainly didn't say the election was stolen back then. That's relatively new.
Until trump started calling anyone who reported on what he said or did"fake news".
What exactly does your statement mean? Do tell. How are they lacking in integrity these days. I agree some definitely are but which ones specifically.
@@brianwalsh1401 We saw this shift in NEWS intergrity when Rupert Murdoch and others in the "Media" industry began to go to "War" with each and Cable News Network (24 hour practically brain washing propaganda began) depending on which network you watch. We used to watch 5PM or 10PM News and that was it. Of course Social Media plays a HUGE factor. This type of politically BIAS Mainstream propaganda has always existed on some level. It has just now been taken to the next level.
I feel today, they intentionally make things so chaotic, race or politically related intentionally so we are always second guessing everything. 60 Minutes used to do some pretty hard-lined exposure or fact finding segments. With the intention of EXPOSING Corrupton. I now think MSM NEWS has been engineered to HIDE corruption. Because the Corrupt are the ones whom own these Networks. And can destroy a Journalists Career if they speak real Truth.
Yes it was probably corrupt in a way then. But now is next level.On the election fraud, yes election fraud is 100% real. They literally stopped counting votes at 2AM and drove in an insane amont of "Mail-In-Ballots". They even started covering up the windows in Vote Counting Stations in the middle of the night. 99% of Countries in this World, even Iraq & Afghanistan do not allow Mail-In-Ballots unless someone is a diplomat, military or some other very good reason for mailing in.
It is a corrupt system that the media protects. A REAL Journalist would be investigating Voter Fraud.
The Dominion Voting machines used in Venezuela 100% threw that election that lead to the implosion of that country. And when the media started investigating it in Venezuela, and Government officials were calling for an investigation, the storage facility holding all the Dominion Voting Machines & Computer Data about that election mysteriously caught on fire in the middle of the night and was burnt to the ground.
The Media stayed as far away from that story as possible. I believe The Guardian (UK) reported on this, then they were bought out by one of these Media Conglomerates and their entire platform of exposing TRUTH was scrubbed. Everyday Civilians are now the new "investigative journalists"
I feel like journalism was a lot more fascinating and appealing back then. Today too much political drama is involved. Back then it was about questions, answers, and truth.
they didn't, back then there way more propganda to the US interests now its still the same but u have more sides and some actually against US interests even so they less mainstream.
He was a great leader. He freed Iran from Western hegemony. Wish every Muslim country has a leader like him.
If he was a real Muslim and follower of prophet Muhammad's teachings Sunnah yes but he was a shia rafidah
@@AtrueservantofAllahshia is the truth
Lol bullas
Wow...I remember watching this back when I was a teenager...but only watching it now, do I realize how much Ayetollah Khomeini looked like Sean Connery...but with a beard, moustache, and turban...take those away, and the resemblance is uncanny...
After the embassy take over, a room half-full of shredded paper was discovered. The students painstakingly matched the pieces together, and the result of that came to be more 70 volumes of books, explaining the spying activities of that embassy, in Iran and the whole region. Not long later, Sadat of Egypt was killed by his people, and years later Egyptians had a revolution of their own. But it was brought down by a military coup. Egyptians never took over US embassy there. There is a saying " there will never be a coup in the US, because there is no US embassy in Washington"
Finally someone uttering sensible stuff in the comments!!!
Not quite true. Arafat was assassinated by a group of hezbullah tied to the Iranian regime . There’s even a street named after the Iranian dude who assassinated Arafat
Nevertheless, the Iranian regime is criminal
Oh it was in a movie, that shredding
The best analytical comment. Excellent.
He was ahead of his time with his support of Palestine and criticism of Israel.
Not really. People have had stupid opinions for centuries. He's more like a dime a dozen
Do NOT be stupid he was mossad agent Islamic revolution 1979 was Zionist project
Ayatolla Khomeini ❤❤❤❤
He was imported from France.
He boosted a Plane Load of Grey Goose. Viva la France! Hail Ayatollah Blassie Bali Bali !!!
Khomeini was in france with brtls
7:45 gotta respect it
That’s strategy, divide to conquer!
The interviewer must have vast experience in order to interview ayatollah a charismatic man
As charismatic as Ted Bundy.
I can’t believe they went to Iran to get an interview with Sean Connery
I didn’t know Andy Kaufman was an Iranian interpreter
Same and I was even more surprised to learn that Sean Connery was once the Supreme Leader of Iran.
@@user-tk1lf5hi6f Little did we know it was all a skit gone terribly wrong
@@EricRosenwaldPhotography 🤣
Maybe he is an Iranian Jew
😂
It’s painful to listen to this
Darood o salaam bar Imam Khomeini Rizwan Allah taaala
@@dawranali7809 kir dar kos madar to va khomini
You know what is painful too? iranian traiters to this regim like you
His ancestral home was torched on 11/18/2022
As an iranian i must say
This is not true
Mike Wallace home
Sean Connery said he looks like him.
Facts
both are jewish
What
Shah has done alot of great work with Iran. He’s no criminal, nor a bad man, the shah was a great man.
He was a criminal. Doesn’t excuse the ayottolah
The translator did such a horrible job. Holy wow
On both ways
Poor guy was probably trembling through out the translation.
How so? He didn’t pick the ground rules
Nah he cool
Fanático
Perrito.
Every question was ask so openly and still saying that reporters were censored for asking question. woow.
refer back to 9:34 he couldn’t ask a specific question because it was “crossed out”
@@amansaggi5 because it was nonsese question. didnt you get it?
8:16 👏🏾👏🏾 thank you.
It's completely show how USA helped him to overthrow the king of Iran.
خاک تو سرت با اون شاه خاعنت مه بحرین را شوهر داد.
😂😂😂👎👎👎
And you still expect them to save you?
The day our country started to fall apart😢
All because of him.
😂😂😂,
I know you are from ahle sunnati Or supporter of al e saud.
How can you call Iran your country even most shias of iran stands with ayatulla e khamnei
@joseph_goebbels606 Muslim country you mean. bc they are persians not arabs
@joseph_goebbels606Iran is a Persian country not Arab that supports Palestine.
@@dassolosyndikat5113it wasn't him who sanctioned your country and told Iraq to invade Iran
How quickly stupidity takes the warm seat of the intelligence.
Ask him if he likes the Jackson 5
He was more of a Stevie Wonder type of guy
This is quite a stark difference from the Shahs many 60 minute interviews
5:42, the balls on Mike Wallace to say that to the Ayatollah’s face!
Sadat is not religious
what’s wild is that they whacked sadat and put the army officer that killed sadat on a stamp in iran
I mean, why did he have balls to ask him that question??
Brilliant interviewer. A legend!
May Allah (swt) continue to protect the Wilayat-e-Faqhe system
No questions about the tweezer embargo.
13:46 The face to melt empires...
The greatest actor and liar in history ...
and you're not wrong ☺️🤣
Who
lol...i agree.
@@jiwoooppa6889 especially their lovefest of 1979 too bad his ugly house in France where he hid his candy a-- for a year was destroyed lol
Like the Western politicians?
Why is this culprit not looking to Mike Wallace while he’s talking?
He is a sigma.
It's a sign of piety to gaze down when speaking.
they wanted a leader- here is the leader
Flashback to the year 982 AD
The translation of Farsi words is very incomplete
Amazing how the Shah of Iran at the time could be candid with Mike and all questions must be censored to the Ayatollah
Compare yourself how cheeky Mike Wallace speaks to the Shah of Iran and how with such a obsequious devotion speaks to Khomeini 🙏
That’s because his supporters warned him and told him not to ask certain questions. Besides Mike Wallace was acting as an ambassador to cool things down . THINK !
@@Lovelife-lw7fy
I certainly don't THINK like you!
And the old leader is a discrace to iran now lol
@@AllAboutTH-camrs13
You have no idea what's going on in Iran right now.
Shah once said the truth can be hidden for a while but never destroyed forever !!
The Shah and Mike were buddies takin jabs at each other. The Shah was enjoying the debate and was definitely holding his own. In this interview, Wallace just wants information on the hostages, he’s walking on eggshells because lives are literally at stake.
Why does the narrator talk with an irani accent too lol
Clergy can't rule.
Wtf is interpreter saying 😂
This is what happens when you overestimate your own abilities😂
At a very grand cost, his greatest gift to Iran has been showing the true colour of clergy and religion, paving the way and enforcing the foundation for at least a secular regime. Like many other Iranians, to this day, I call upon his holiness couple of times a month when I go to the toilet.
even some believers would see Khomeinis face on the moon back in 1979 :)
thank god for Khomeini giving gods people what their greatest desire to be a bunch of religious maniacs
@@mafiosoginger what great religious fervor that is for hallucinating maniacs
@@mafiosoginger oooooou that's even better than seeing a Jesus picture in a piece of toast.
khomoonmania is a psycho-pathological process to deify a religious figure induced by an extreme state of religious paranoia
Yep. Gentle mice avoid traps.
That second Marine’s cheekbones just below his eyes appeared to be swollen. This leaves me to believe that he may have been beaten into a false confession.
He also wipes his face with his hands which is common amongst torture victims.
Mashalla a great man. Elevated and emanating light and righteousness. Such pure wisdom, he shamed the Americans. What a blessing to see him even in film.
such a petty man he cant even listen to unscripted questions let alone answering them
And now the revolution is burning this man's house...
No questions about freedom 🤔🤔🤔? That isn’t concerning or anything.
There is no need that you americans worry about our freedom in iran
Just keep your head in your own business
Ty😂
My your own business
@@Mossaab-kg3cj5hc5s 😂😂😂
Humble Man ♥️
Jimmy Carter himself brought Khomainie to Power!
Somehow they managed to chose the worst translator for the imam and Persian to English
If Khomeini gave people human freedom and freedom of choice. He would have showed the best example of Islam. Instead he oppressed people.
there is no freedom in Islam, Islam means death.
You’re right but he didn’t care about islam all he wanted to do was ruling iran at every cost
@@whereisthelambsauce7753 it’s apparent now that it was all cosmetic. The forcing of “rituals” never been a ruling I heard of historically
@@xxk3rd196 he was most powerful man in iran during his 10 years of ruling iran and he ruined our beautiful country
Before he talked, he praise his God with bismillahirrahmanirrahim. It's how he respect islam.
And after ruling,he implement islam and Quran as pure as can be. Not like the monarchy who life glamor life and religion is just an symbol.
So my opinion is quite the contrary. he is the true leader of Islam.
Thoughts and prayers for the safe return of all the hostages. Iran should vote this guy out!
the translator could've gotten that man killed.
The Ayatollah looks very similar to Sean Connery
the King in the Ummah of Prophet Muhmmad Saw
Yes
You're imagining things.
He is a enemy of islam
Ayatollh Khomeini saved Iran from poverty, illiteracy and American colonialism
Yeah the terrorist regime that forces its extreme ideologies on its people and spends all its money on proxy wars.
He do it worse
Indeed. This man saved my country
there is no poverty any more ?
@@JuniorRodigan yeah dude is brainwashed
woah.
Ayatollah of rock and rolla.
Haha baller
Ayatollah Blassie is Boogie Woogie Schnoogie! Bali Bali !!!
Today 2022 Iran is paying the price
They are not paying. They just taking pain. After the pain America hegemony will be no more
RIH
Ruhollah Khomeini
(1902-1989)
The ayatollah is a rocknrolla
he is a drakula
May he rest in peace. A guide to the right path.🤲🤲
I like this guy who gives back what he gets. Why are others interfering in this country's politics.
Come to Iran brother, we will take very good care of you and your mother & sisters ❤
@@ilovepeoplebrokeep quiet. you are not iranian. iranian people are kind
Thank you for sharing our story with the world we need all the help we can get #mahsaamini 🙏🖤🖤🖤
How world can help??
@@aligh999 it is a domestic problem ok???
@@aligh999 deporting The family of IRI dogs, puting sanctions on targeted ayatollahs, giving us internet, more sanctuary no Nuclear negotiating
Sorry no time to explain in detail
@@sina2002_ Iran has been under sanctions for several years, some people turned the sanctions into an excuse for not making progress, but some people turned it into an opportunity for progress.
Even during the sanctions, none of the celebrities defended themselves.
@@sina2002_ Regarding the Internet, it is very clear that the same people who ban drugs( medicine) but are willing to give the Internet in times of conflict and bloodshed.
I don’t understand the comments saying this journalist made Khomenei look bad. On the contrary, Khomenei made himself look bad.
Shasheedam to gabr Khomeini 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
This guy is a textbook comic book villan