Former President Jimmy Carter, center, with some of the Americans who were taken hostage by Iran in 1979. Mr. Carter met with the hostages in West Germany after their release on Jan. 20, 1981.

Freeing the Hostages Wouldn’t Have Gotten Jimmy Carter Re-Elected. 8 minute read. President Jimmy Carter addressing a town meeting in Elk City, Okla., in 1979. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images.

With President Donald Trump ’s decision to intervene in the Iran- Israel war, Iran, a country 6,500 miles away from ...

The seizure of 52 American diplomats as hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran confronted Jimmy Carter with the question of ...

Jimmy Carter emerged from that trade as the loser, but so did the hostages and their families, who spent decades fighting the U.S. government for recompense they were owed under U.S. law. More ...

This change of tone, however fleeting, came after the intense U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear-development sites this week, ...

Jimmy Carter will be be honored with a state funeral before being laid to rest in his hometown of Plains, ... that the 52 remaining hostages were released. Carter was allowed to welcome them home.

Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president known as a champion of international human rights both during and after his White House tenure and who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his lifetime of ...

This reporting has raised anew one of the major “what if” questions in recent American political history: would Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, aged 100, have gotten re ...