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The Deal
2025 · TV series · 1 season
Created by Jean-Stéphane Bron, Alice Winocour
Geneva, April 2015. In the hushed corridors of a luxury hotel, high-tension international negotiations get underway between the United States and Iran, suspected of secretly developing the atomic weapon. Alexandra Weiss, head of the Swiss diplomatic mission, is trying to maintain a fragile balance between the parties operating behind the scenes. The unexpected arrival of her former love, Payam Sanjabi, an Iranian engineer whose life is under threat, will complicate her task dangerously...
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> Is it worth it, to set back Iran's nuclear program only for two years?
Dr Jeffrey Lewis (an American expert in nuclear nonproliferation) answers this with a no. Not on monetary grounds, but on the grounds that the setback is only momentary. (While as he proposes diplomacy can bring lasting change.)
I recommend his podcast "The Deal": https://www.middlebury.edu/deal-podcast
Season 1 and season 2 are entirely about the promise and the collapse of the nuclear deal with Iran. Season 2 episode 4 talks about Stuxnet.