Carter had the opportunity of American oil independence.
Alaska has so many oil leases in progress Trump is making this independence a reality.
From the second paragraph
Most commentators acknowledge that today’s events in Iran began in November 1979, they err by pointing to the day Islamic radicals seized 66 American hostages. In truth, they began when Carter, after rushing the shah of Iran out, welcomed back the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, whom his advisors called a “Gandhi-like figure,” “a saint,” and a man of “impeccable integrity and honesty.”