Iran, Israel and the Bomb
What led to the war?
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
Hossein Kanani Moghaddam
Self
Ehud Barak
Self
Mariam Pirzadeh
Self
Oren Setter
Self
Farid Vahid
Self
Sima Shine
Self
François Hollande
Self
Robert Malley
Self
Yossi Melman
Self
John Bolton
Self
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Self (archive footage)
Ruhollah Khomeini
Self (archive footage)
Benjamin Netanyahu
Self (archive footage)
Donald Trump
Self (archive footage)
JD Vance
Self (archive footage)
Marco Rubio
Self (archive footage)
Pete Hegseth
Self (archive footage)
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage)
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
Self (archive footage)
Hassan Nasrallah
Self (archive footage)
Details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- French
- Languages
- English, French
- Budget
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- Revenue
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- Age rating
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- Quality
- 4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
- Production
- Nova ProductionFrance TélévisionsJava FilmsAl Jazeera Documentaries
Crew
Director
Miyuki Droz Aramaki
Sébastien Séga
Editor
