Not over a debt. The Shah owed nothing to us or to Carter. Carter sent a delegation of his crooked friends to Iran to tell the Shah to cancel the contract he had with an American co. to make Iran a deep water port for oil export. The crooks were to tell the Shah to add a %age to the new contract for Carter and then re-let the contract to the same American co. at the higher price. There are also writings of the Shah's that verify this meeting in addition to the Soviet records. The Shah was shocked that an American president would demand a bribe from him and he said, "No." Carter told him he would take him down and began to work with the Commies to bring Khomeni to power and create a revolution in Iran. The Shah became seriously ill at the same time Carter and the Russians were busy stirring up the Islamic revolution to bring Khomeni to power and lost his ability to fight back. As for Carter caring about the hostages - he cared when they threatened his political life and tried to make a deal with the Soviets to use their influence to try to deep-six Reagan by having them released to him, but Khomeni wouldn't play along. Carter is still damaging US by running around the world "certifying" stolen elections like Chavez' to bring more Commie America haters to power and bad mouthing US policy every opportunity he gets. Somebody up the thread listed a book about the real Carter that you might be interested in reading.