Iran, Israel and the Bomb

A sober, nerve-tightening briefing on decades of covert escalation, dense with talking heads and archival menace, leaving a lingering sense of dread.

Directed by

Miyuki Droz Aramaki, Sylvain Lepetit

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Hossein Kanani Moghaddam, Ehud Barak, Mariam Pirzadeh

Tagline

What led to the war?

Overview

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.

How it feels

Tense, dark and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.

About

War, power, conspiracy, politics

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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