Iran: The Making of a War

From coup to conflict – how decades of rivalries and miscalculations have shaped one of today’s most dangerous wars.

Spanning more than seven decades, Iran: The Making of War examines how one of the most consequential conflicts of the modern era came to be.

Beginning with the CIA-led coup in 1953 that led to the removal of Mohammad Mosaddegh, the film traces the transformation of Iran from a Western-aligned monarchy under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to the Iranian revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

As relations with the United States collapse after the Iranian hostage crisis, a parallel rivalry intensifies with Israel.

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