{"slug": "iran-israel-and-the-bomb", "title": "Iran, Israel and the Bomb", "summary": "The US and Israel launched massive strikes on Iran on February 28, 2026, claiming an imminent nuclear threat, after decades of sabotage and brinkmanship over Iran's nuclear program. The film traces the shadow war from the Stuxnet virus to the AI-assisted killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, culminating in open war as Israel pulled Washington into conflict.", "body_md": "[Featured Documentaries](/video/featured-documentaries/)\n\n# Iran, Israel and the Bomb\n\nHow a decades of sabotage and brinkmanship over Iran's nuclear programme erupted into the 2026 US-Israeli war on Iran.\n\nWhat led to the war?\n\nOn February 28, 2026, the US and Israel launched massive strikes on Iran, claiming an imminent nuclear threat.\n\nThis film traces how the world reached this point after more than three decades of shadow war over “the bomb”.\n\nIsrael has tried to block Tehran’s nuclear drive with sabotage, assassinations and cyberwar – from the Stuxnet virus wrecking Natanz centrifuges to the AI-assisted killing of nuclear programme “father” Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, and a commando raid stealing 1.5 tonnes of secret nuclear archive files.\n\nIran insists uranium enrichment is its sovereign right and key to national identity and regional power.\n\nAs Israel pounded Iran’s nuclear facilities in June 2025 and systematically weakened its allies in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, nuclear talks continued in Geneva. Iran was edging towards diluting weapons-grade uranium – but Israel wasn’t prepared to wait, and pulled Washington into open war whose global consequences are only now beginning to unfold.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/iran-israel-and-the-bomb", "canonical_source": "https://www.aljazeera.com/video/featured-documentaries/2026/6/25/iran-israel-and-the-bomb?traffic_source=rss", "published_at": "2026-06-25 13:30:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-25 13:42:19.087464+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Iran", "Israel", "United States", "Mohsen Fakhrizadeh", "Stuxnet", "Natanz", "Geneva"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/iran-israel-and-the-bomb", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/iran-israel-and-the-bomb.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/iran-israel-and-the-bomb.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/iran-israel-and-the-bomb.jsonld"}}