P6/6: Nuclear Confrontation (18/18: Iran & The West - S3/3)

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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, currently our man at the UN, reveals an extraordinary secret deal that Iran proposed a few years later.

Broadcast on: BBC Two, 9:00pm Saturday 21st February 2009

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[ravishethwala]

wow..... international politics is more difficult than rocket science!! I bet no body can give me thumb down on this one!!!

[kingofmilwaukee]

I watched all 18 parts of this. A real eye opening documentary. I had no idea how many times the USA and Iran were close to normalizing relations only to mess it up. From each side.

[khuzestanmis]

this is just so crazy now i understand why the world is the way it is.

god give us all peace and also give us a easy way of solving this big confusion.

peace!!!

[originaltamil]

@ravishethwala you re right brother, but its the people in power who make it that way...Iran is still being politically oppressed and the US are the biggest HYPOCRITES of all!...the West is evil. Theyre just wearing Good costumes. oh and Condalisa needs to suck my cock for all of her useless talking

[TheQuietObserver1983]

I watched all the 18 videos and came to understand that the conclusion that most of the world leaders are BLIND. In the name of what do we come up with this destuctive arms that threaten MANKIND?

"When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, the last fish caught, then only will man discover that he cannot eat money."

May LOVE/PEACE inundate this planet.

[nabecaydim]

whoa! finished watching all

[TheZindarod]

@jjbravo1000 You are just an illiterate psychopath.

[irishgeal1]

iran would be stupid to have anything to do with the worst terrorist state in the world, america. and to insult iran leaders by sending that morphodite rice.

[TheMajid333]

its good, but i dont hear a word about Iranian passenger plane 655 in 1988 shot down by american submarine, which might be argued as a blunder,tragedy but to many a hostile act by US especially when the people in charge of submarine were awarded medals.

[no7shark]

@eilidho ...I have watched all the videos, this is probably the most intelligent comment I have seen being made.

[48alfaone]

"Religious Power Is Dangerous & Evil, Period"! And in the past it has always Failed! A true country for the people is based on peace, full freedoms, complete human rights, laws based on humans, equality, true elections, provable science, (And Religion As A Hobby Only, No Power)!! Wake Up Iran, Your People Are Good, But its 2011 not 925!

[eilidho]

Thanks for the upload.

It seems Bush was foolish to declare Iran as part of the Axis of Evil when Khatami was willing to negotiate and was probably the most moderate leader Iran has had; this is also the consensus given in other sources. However, little is explained about simultaneous terrorism going on, though terrorism is often a more grass roots reaction, and could perhaps be explained partly by the US's continued support for Israel- probably the biggest source of antiUS sentiment in the ME.