Life imitates art in ‘Tehran’

Published July 25, 2025 12:07am ET



The night Israel launched its stunning aerial campaign against Iran last month, incredible stories began emerging from Tehran of senior generals and nuclear scientists assassinated in their apartments, attack drones launched by Israel from warehouses inside Iran, explosions at nuclear facilities, and even Mossad agents in Tehran.

No matter how outlandish the rumors, they’d almost all been foretold in Tehran, the Apple TV+ series now in its third season. The series follows the daring exploits of Tamar Rabinyan, a highly-skilled Mossad agent dispatched to the Iranian capital to undermine the mullahs’ burgeoning nuclear weapons program.

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