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)