Published: 26 June 2020
Last updated: 5 March 2024
ISRAEL'S PREPARATIONS for an attack against Iran at the beginning of this decade cost us 11 billion shekels (US$3.2 billion), according to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and foreign media sources. The time has come to recoup some of that money – and look who’s doing that? The Kan Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, which has sold its “Tehran” series to Apple TV. It will be aired in 135 countries.
This is poetic justice at its best, and just at the right time: Other foreign publications report that Israel was behind the cyberattack that paralysed an Iranian port about a month ago. But “Tehran” has far greater ambitions: both launching a cyberattack and blowing up a nuclear reactor, as becomes clear at the outset. And all that in eight episodes.
If reality were to obey the laws of drama, actor Menashe Noy, in the role of a senior Mossad official, would be able to inform the prime minister immediately that our aircraft returned home safely and that Tamar Rabinyan, played by Niv Sultan, is in our hands. But drama has strict rules of its own, and only begins to be interesting when something goes awry.
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Photo: Niv Sultan as Tamar Rabinyan, in "Tehran" (Kan Public Broadcaster Channel 11)
