Documentary Description
In part three of this landmark series from Norma Percy and the team
that made the multi-award winning documentaries The Death of Yugoslavia
and Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, contributors including Iran's
President Khatami tell the inside story of the West's continuing
nuclear confrontation with Iran. The film also shows a rare moment when
they worked together.
US State Department insiders tell how, after 9/11, Iran played a key
role in helping America to topple the Taliban in Afghanistan - only for
President Bush to put Iran into his 'axis of evil' immediately
afterwards. Jack Straw, then foreign secretary, and President Khatami
describe how Iran offered to help the US and its allies in their war
against Saddam Hussein - help that, given Iran's powerful contacts in
Iraq and the West's subsequent difficulties there, might have made a
crucial difference.
Jack Straw, his successor Margaret Beckett, and Joschka Fischer of
Germany describe how they struggled to find a compromise between Iran
and President Bush's hardliners over Iran's nuclear programme. John
Sawers at the UN reveals an extraordinary secret deal that Iran
proposed a few years later.
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