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'How Jimmy Carter kept me alive in Iran'

Nomia Iqbal
BBC News
Submitted photo Rocky Sickmann, a Marine in pyjamas, stands next to President Jimmy Carter while others look onSubmitted photo
Rocky Sickmann met Jimmy Carter the day after he landed in after being held in Iran for over a year

Out of the many mourning former President Jimmy Carter, not everyone can say he saved their life.

Rocky Sickmann was a 22-year-old US Marine stationed at the American embassy in Tehran, Iran, when he and 51 other Americans were taken hostage by Iranian revolutionaries on 4 November, 1979.

It defined his life - as well as much of Carter's presidency.

"For the first 30 days I'm sitting in this room handcuffed and blindfolded, thinking the Vietnam war had just ended, and nobody cared about these thousands of veterans coming home," said the 67-year-old. "Who's going to care about the Iran hostages">The world's richest man has called on voters to lawmakers and voice their opposition to the president's Big Beautiful Bill.

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