Iran, Israel and the Bomb

The story

On February 28, 2026, the US and Israel launched massive strikes on Iran, claiming an imminent nuclear threat. This film traces how the world reached this point after more than three decades of shadow war over “the bomb”. Israel has tried to block Tehran’s nuclear drive with sabotage, assassinations and cyberwar – from the Stuxnet virus wrecking Natanz centrifuges to the AI-assisted killing of nuclear programme “father” Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, and a commando raid stealing 1.5 tonnes of secret nuclear archive files. Iran insists uranium enrichment is its sovereign right and key to national identity and regional power. As Israel pounded Iran’s nuclear facilities in June 2025 and systematically weakened its allies in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, nuclear talks continued in Geneva. Iran was edging towards diluting weapons-grade uranium – but Israel wasn’t prepared to wait, and pulled Washington into open war whose global consequences are only now beginning to unfold.

Cast

H Hossein Kanani MoghaddamSelf E Ehud BarakSelf M Mariam PirzadehSelf O Oren SetterSelf F Farid VahidSelf S Sima ShineSelf F François HollandeSelf R Robert MalleySelf Y Yossi MelmanSelf J John BoltonSelf M Mahmoud AhmadinejadSelf (archive footage) R Ruhollah KhomeiniSelf (archive footage)

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B Benjamin NetanyahuSelf (archive footage) D Donald TrumpSelf (archive footage) J JD VanceSelf (archive footage) M Marco RubioSelf (archive footage) P Pete HegsethSelf (archive footage) B Barack ObamaSelf (archive footage) M Mohsen FakhrizadehSelf (archive footage) H Hassan NasrallahSelf (archive footage) B Bashar al-AssadSelf (archive footage) M Melania TrumpSelf (archive footage) S Sara NetanyahuSelf (archive footage) S Sahar EmamiSelf (archive footage)