P1/6: Nuclear Confrontation (13/18: 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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[Manuchehr20]

fuck G W Bush

[patsyd80]

wow. 1.15 what a way to fire a rocket. dont think health an safety would be to pleased with that. he forgot to wear eye protectors.lol

[originaltamil]

WOW....America KILLED MASSOUD!!! IT SO OBVIOUS! and PLANNED 911 to make it look like the Taliban did it! ...FUCKING SNAKES!!!!!!!...POOR PEOPLE OF THE U.S

[3ema3dk3]

@Manuchehr20 fuck your mother !

[Crossover3king]

@DehSeeker fuck kill ur self

[Delta4ms]

Bush should not have included Iran in his axis of evil speech. Sometimes it's best to just let sleeping dogs lie.

[toffanful]

@SouthLbkMade Another boisterous braggart from a declining nation which is in denial about losing both wars it is currently engaged in. Guess what, warmonger? No bases in Iraq (you lose) and an ignominious retreat from Afghanistan. You reap what you sew.

[toffanful]

@Legacyleg3nd So who's the lunatic nation? Judging by your comments, and I agree, the dangerous state is Israel.

[MrNoobidoobidoo]

i dont know but khatami is a pretty cool guy he's not like achadinejat with his stupid clothes

[HaroetMaroet]

Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empires, the taliban will defeat them all

[Mandinko23]

so iran help the west who are disbeliever of Islam attack their muslim brothers. what the hell all just cause they were sunnis and not shia