Iran and The West 3/3: Nuclear Confrontation - BBC (Feb 21, 2009)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hydcg
** Documentary series marking the 30th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution.
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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[horlock91]

john bolton is a cunt

[pejman161]

Why doesn't this Documentary starts AT 1953 ??

what United States & England really did to mine Persian Brothers & Sisters?

and why isn't there any documentary that Iran Accepted the Brazil & turkey nuclear Deal?

[freewilly2fly]

@Magenta408 Israel does not admit to possessing them(I accept that they do).Israel has a real and present threat to their existence(Iran doesn't).Israel does not state that its purpose is to destroy another country(Iran has sworn to erase Israel).Israel is not funding puppet groups in other countries to undermining the stability and agitating other nations and escalating tensions ( Iran does). Israel is a responsible democratic world citizen Iran is not. Israel is rational...

[n5017858]

Richard Armitage looks just like Uncle Fester from The Addams Family 34:24

[kayzed786]

full of propaganda bullshit. oh whata suprise it was BBC that produced this documentary

[Magenta408]

Afterbirth Israel can have atomic bombs, why cannot Iran play with atoms also?

[Magenta408]

Bush, already had only one thing in mind and that was to knob gob the Zionists. Nothing else. What was the point of going after Saddam a second time?? I think he may have said once that, "Saddam tried to have my daddy killed?"". I boil on the face of this world.

[Magenta408]

@horlock91, yes, I agree with you completely, John Bolton is a proven and recognized cunt and a useless one at that!

[marvincontendo]

Ok. Us were inflexible since the beginning and now there's another monster (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) who they artificially created, by not supporting moderate Iranian government. All because Iran was not merely a puppet nation... things are suppose to get much uglier now than they ever were.

[stoazen]

Aw, poor yanks getting blown up. Might consider keeping their military in their own bloody country.

[Vash1286]

@pejman161 No kidding! all i said was don't make people like Ahamdinejad look like good guys. Iran, as well as the rest of the middle east have 2 problems:

1. Politicians form the UK, USA, etc... want to take advantage of the region and mess it up. 2.The Corrupt Radical Islamic politicians are messing the region up just as 2x as worse as the other countries. its like hitting one bird with two stones. I have family/friends in Iran and they said its gotten worse over the past 30 years.