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In post-humous piece entitled ''Jimmy Carter: The False Savior'' published in ''Counterpunch'', Michael K, Smith wrote:

In post-humous piece entitled ''Jimmy Carter: The False Savior'' published in ''Counterpunch'', Michael K, Smith wrote:

{{Cquote|After the Shah was overthrown, Carter could not conceive of U.S. responsibility for the actions of enraged Iranian students who seized 66 Americans and held them hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, demanding the return of “the criminal Shah.” (He had admitted the Shah to the U.S. for emergency medical treatment for cancer, thus precipitating the “hostage crisis.”) To Carter, Americans were by definition [[innocent]], outside [[history]], and he dismissed Iranian grievances against the U.S. as ancient history, refusing to discuss them. In his distorted mind, Iranians were [[terrorist]]s by nature, and Iran had always been a potentially terrorist nation, regardless of what they had suffered at U.S. hands. In short, without the Shah, Carter regarded Iran as a land of swarthy and crazed [[medieval]]ists, what [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] today calls a “rogue state.”<ref>[https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/30/jimmy-carter-the-false-savoir/ Jimmy Carter: the False Savoir, Michael K. Smith, December 30, 2024. www.counterpunch.org</ref>}}

{{Cquote|After the Shah was overthrown, Carter could not conceive of U.S. responsibility for the actions of enraged Iranian students who seized 66 Americans and held them hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, demanding the return of “the criminal Shah.” (He had admitted the Shah to the U.S. for emergency medical treatment for cancer, thus precipitating the “hostage crisis.”) To Carter, Americans were by definition innocent, outside [[history]], and he dismissed Iranian grievances against the U.S. as ancient history, refusing to discuss them. In his distorted mind, Iranians were [[terrorist]]s by nature, and Iran had always been a potentially terrorist nation, regardless of what they had suffered at U.S. hands. In short, without the Shah, Carter regarded Iran as a land of swarthy and crazed [[medieval]]ists, what [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] today calls a “rogue state.”<ref>[https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/30/jimmy-carter-the-false-savoir/ Jimmy Carter: the False Savoir, Michael K. Smith, December 30, 2024. www.counterpunch.org</ref>}}

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