From 2010, former President Jimmy Carter on Iranian hostages: “The main advice I got was to attack Iran…but I was convinced then and still am convinced that had I done so I would have killed maybe 10,000 innocent Iranians and they would immediately have executed our hostages.”

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2010 Jimmy Carter on Iranian hostages: advice was to attack Iran but kill 10K Iranians & our hostages