{"id":10999,"date":"2015-03-08T22:14:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T02:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10999"},"modified":"2015-03-08T22:14:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T02:14:42","slug":"film-from-cyrus-to-ahmadinejad-the-not-so-secret-iran-israel-war-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10999","title":{"rendered":"Film: From Cyrus to Ahmadinejad – The Not So Secret Iran-Israel War (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0 Documentary \/ War<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Fascinating backstory of the low-level cooperation that existed between the governments of Iran and Israel during the 1970s, and the events that transformed Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\u00a0and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu into bitter enemies.<\/p>\n

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Produced when Iran\u2019s President Mahmoud\u00a0Ahmadinejad was still in power, this BBC Persian Television documentary by Maziar Bahari reveals an unlikely relationship between Iran and Israel, which one historian describes as \u2018love without marriage\u2019 when 30 years earlier the two countries shared more than diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n

Mutual admiration existed among diplomatic and economic emissaries during the 1970s when Israel sent experts to Iran to build-up the latter\u2019s flagging agrarian industry, and sold sophisticated arms to the Shah\u2019s regime when the U.S. military was more hesitant about sharing top-level technology.<\/p>\n

Iran reportedly had one of the largest and wealthiest Jewish populations before the western-friendly environment of the Shah was toppled by the clergy in the 1979 Revolution. The repercussions meant an exodus of Jews beyond Iran\u2019s borders, and them Islamic state’s efforts to vilify Israel.<\/p>\n

A high-ranking Israeli diplomat characterizes the election of Ahmadinejad as the gift that kept on giving, since the anti-Semitic leader made it easy for the west to loathe his policies and fear the possibility that his regime was intent on developing and using a nuclear bomb against Israel, but there\u2019s a pragmatism within the aging military, governmental, and diplomatic interview subjects from both countries who feel it\u2019s not within either nation\u2019s interest to blow the other up. Bahari\u2019s interviews shed light on mistakes, quote off-record statements on strategic tit-for-tat assassinations, and sometimes a thin smile on a subject manages to hint at a likely truth when the official reply is a straight \u2018no comment.\u2019<\/p>\n

Like his prior documentaries on Iranian politics, Bahari fills the doc with stills and archival audio excerpts and newsreel clips, making the film an important narrative that contextualizes the current state in which Israel\u2019s Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu has moved from theorizing to being thoroughly convinced Iran is close to developing a bomb. Interspersed with interviews from Jewish-Iranian diaspora in Israel, Bahari presents a taut argument against escalating tensions to doomsday levels.<\/p>\n

Maziar Bahari\u2019s recent directorial work is the documentary\u00a0To Light a Candle<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2014), and some of his prior work is available online, including\u00a0Mohammad and the Matchmaker<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(2004) and\u00a0And Along Came a Spider<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(2003) on YouTube; and\u00a0Reporters in Iraq<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2005), \u00a0An Iranian Odyssey: Mossadegh, Oil and the 1953 Coup<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2010), and\u00a0From Cyrus to Ahmadinejad: The Not So Secret Iran-Israel War<\/strong>\u00a0(2012) on Vimeo.<\/p>\n

His 2009 incarceration in an Iranian jail was recently dramatized by Jon Stewart in the film\u00a0Rosewater<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(2014<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2015 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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