The Unanswered Questions After Strikes on Iran
The FRONTLINE Dispatch
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
As the war with Iran intensifies, key questions remain unanswered about Iran’s nuclear capabilities, especially for the man tasked with monitoring them. A conversation with filmmaker and correspondent Sebastian Walker about his recent interview with Rafael Grossi, the head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency. Grossi says inspectors no longer have visibility into Iran’s nuclear program.
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| 0:00.0 | The war with Iran has been framed, in large part, as a mission to stop a nuclear threat. |
| 0:07.0 | Here is Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegsef, at a White House press conference on March 24th. |
| 0:13.0 | The President has made it clear that you will not have a nuclear weapon. |
| 0:16.0 | The War Department agrees, our job is to ensure that, And so we're keeping our hand on that throttle. |
| 0:21.6 | But if ending Iran's quest for nuclear weapons is the goal, |
| 0:24.6 | the current picture remains unclear, which raises the question, |
| 0:29.6 | has a war set back Iran's nuclear ambitions or just made them harder to see? |
| 0:34.6 | Today, a conversation with frontline Sebastian Walker Walker, whose 2025 film strike on Iran |
| 0:40.6 | the nuclear question, asked many of these questions before the latest war between Israel and the |
| 0:46.6 | United States and Iran broke out. He's updated his film and he's here to discuss it with us. |
| 0:52.8 | I'm Rainy Ernst & Roth, editor-in-chief and executive producer |
| 0:55.9 | of Frontline, and this is the Frontline Dispatch. Seb, welcome to the Frontline Dispatch. |
| 1:06.6 | Hey, thanks. Good to be here. I mean, after all, this is your third time on the dispatch since February. |
| 1:11.8 | You're becoming my one regular. |
| 1:14.3 | Well, there's a lot that's been happening. |
| 1:16.3 | Well, we're really pleased with that in mind that you've continued your investigation, |
| 1:20.3 | reopening strike on Iran to trace the current U.S. Israel attacks on Iran. |
| 1:25.4 | Tell me what's changed since the original film and how you went |
| 1:28.5 | about reporting this. Well, there's obviously been a huge amount of developments on the story. |
| 1:35.0 | I mean, it's still unfolding right now. It's actually, you know, a challenge to kind of keep up |
| 1:41.2 | with it. We're doing as much as we can to kind of catch up with |
| 1:45.6 | the story in all sorts of different ways. Now, something in particular that you're going to have |
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