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The Ayatollah

Two weeks after 66 Americans were taken hostage in Iran, Mike Wallace interviews the country's spiritual leader, the Ayatollah Khomeini. Wallace boldly confronts the Ayatollah, asking for his response to being called a "disgrace to Islam" and a "lunatic" by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
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