Investigating Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
The FRONTLINE Dispatch
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4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
A recent FRONTLINE documentary investigates the aftermath of the U.S. and Israeli military campaign against Iran's nuclear program. In this episode of The FRONTLINE Dispatch, the filmmakers discuss combining on-the-ground reporting with cutting-edge visual forensics to understand the precision of the strikes, the civilian toll and the status of Iran's nuclear expertise.
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| 0:00.0 | For the past month, Iran has been reeling from nationwide protests and a deadly government crackdown. |
| 0:08.0 | Major protests have erupted in Iran. |
| 0:11.0 | The protests are now nationwide. |
| 0:16.0 | More protests in Iran leave the world asking if real change is on the horizon. |
| 0:21.6 | Iran's government is cracking down hard on massive nightly street protests. |
| 0:26.6 | More information has been leaking out about the extraordinarily bloody massacre of protesters there this month. |
| 0:35.6 | It's estimated that at least 6,000 protesters have been killed, and President Trump has been |
| 0:42.2 | weighing military action against Iran's hardline regime. |
| 0:46.1 | This is the latest escalation since the U.S. and Israel carried out an unprecedented military |
| 0:51.8 | campaign against Iran's nuclear program last June. |
| 0:56.0 | Breaking news tonight, Israel says it has launched an attack on Iran, striking dozens of... |
| 1:01.0 | The United States bombed three nuclear sites in Iran. |
| 1:04.0 | Natanz and Fordo are... |
| 1:05.0 | Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. But questions about the impact of the campaign and Iran's future have lingered. |
| 1:16.6 | Frontline's documentary Strike on Iran the Nuclear Question, made in collaboration with the investigative |
| 1:22.6 | journalists from the Washington Post, Bellingcat and evident media media provides a rare look inside the country. |
| 1:29.9 | So when I went to help him to lift him up, so his entire scheme came on my hand. |
| 1:37.0 | Today, a conversation with filmmaker Sebastian Walker and Adam Desiderio and Washington Post |
| 1:43.7 | visual forensics reporter, Nililo Tabrizi, about what |
| 1:47.4 | happened in Iran during the war in June, in what was left behind. I'm Rainey Ironson Roth, editor-in-chief |
| 1:54.2 | and executive producer of Frontline, and this is the frontline dispatch. |
| 2:06.3 | Neelu, Adam, and Seb, thank you so much for joining me on the dispatch. |
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