Flashback: Jimmy Carter Bans Iranian Immigrants, Deports Students

UNKNOWN MALE HOST: “Saying that Iran must pay increasingly heavy cost now, the president ordered four steps immediately. A complete break in diplomatic relations — Iranian diplomats must leave the United States by tomorrow midnight. Official sanctions prohibiting exports to Iran — the exporting of even food and medicines is expected to be minimal or nonexistent. An inventory of frozen Iranian assets of over $8 billion in this country and steps toward using the money to pay claims of Americans against Iran. And a virtual shutting off of all Iranian immigration into this country by refusing new visas to Iranian citizens. Moreover the president warned these four steps may be just the beginning.”
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CARTER: “The steps I have ordered today are those that are the necessary now. Other actions may become necessary if these steps do not produce the prompt release of the hostages.”