Face to Face with the Ayatollah

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Published 2018-05-09

Jan. 20 marks the 30th anniversary of the release of 52 American hostages in Iran. "60 Minutes Overtime" returns to the early weeks of the crisis with Mike Wallace's famous interview of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Why famous? Would you call him a lunatic to his face?

All Comments (21)

@OPTIONALWATCH 5 years ago

How do we know this wasn't Sean connery acting as Ayatollah?
@irufan14 5 years ago

Interesting how Khomeini answers the questions calmly but the voice translating is highly dramatized
@peaceistheanswer275 5 years ago

Even the Ayatolla in '79 knew how oppressed black people were in America.
@dulajohnstone5704 4 years ago

Now imagine an Iraqi reporter getting an interview with Bush and asking why he attacked Iraq after no WOMD was found.
@keeptexasfree7361 1 year ago

Back when mainstream news was worth watching.
@persianalpha430 5 years ago

Blacks and Women are FREE What a powefull words and strong message to the world.
@rezah336 4 years ago

Sadat: "Khomeini is a lunatic". Khomeini: "We call on the Egyptian people to rise and dethrone Sadat." lol
@danialerfanytabar6836 5 years ago

and that is how the great ally of U.S becomes its greatest threat... congragulations politicians.... keep up the good work
@johnnyballenatl 5 years ago

Thanks to hard-hitting interviews like this, 60 Minutes would become #1 among all primetime network shows in 1979-80 and in turn, helped CBS — after three years of ABC domination — become the top network once again.
@Moorsho 5 years ago

I agree with him on freeing black hostages.this man is a great man God bless him.
@aldetitman97 5 years ago

That is how a true leader speaks
@jwm66 3 years ago

"But that is not an answer to whether the hostages will be freed" Mike Wallace
@jodyalexander5742 5 years ago

I was young and non Muslim at time, despite my being Sunni and Ayatollah being Shia,I always liked him, maybe at first because he let black people go free, now I feel he really wanted his ppl to live according to their deen
@Camaro254 4 years ago

Israel always comes up doesn't it? It's always the center of all these issues and turmoil.
@ayushc5704 2 years ago

the interpreter is making him sound so rude but he answers the questions so calmly....western media is such a scam
@kamalpreetsingh1686 3 years ago

These were rare historical moments in the political life of Iran......
@playstation9435 5 years ago

Look at the "presidential suite". I bet the kings and rulers of the world can take a humility lesson from Imam Khomeini r.a
@radikowalski1553 4 years ago

Mike Wallace IS a crazy, blunt and yet a genius interviewer. I admire him soo much and have had several classes on his style.
@jingdong3934 3 years ago

An excellent reporter.
@empirehexmak6831 5 years ago

The Translation is not complete. Because , Persian Language is really different with English .