A crossroads country, a shattered empire, a tormented nation, Iran is recovering from a century of political and ideological convulsions. The nuclear crisis revealed its desire for power to the world.
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For the first time, this film will go back one hundred years of Iranian history, to the sources of Iran's confrontation with Western powers.

From 1908 to 2008, from the discovery of oil to the nuclear crisis, here is a spectacular journey to the heart of a country and a people, a colorful fresco which favors dialogue with lived history, which reveals the images of archives and period documents, and which above all gives a voice to witnesses (the former President of the Iranian Republic Hachemi Rafsanjani, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Hubert Védrine, etc.), to Iranians of yesterday and of Today. A shared look, without prejudice and without concessions, of them on us, of us on them.

00:00 The growth of IRAN
07:44 New political regime
12:21 The impact of European conflicts on Iran
16:50 Nationalization of oil
23:12 The arrival of the Americans
29:50 The Shah of Iran in power
34:00 Mohamad Reza Pahlavi
45:08 The oil crisis of 1976
54:00 Rouhollah khomeini revolutionary
01:10:35 IranIraq War
01:17:38 The death of Khomeini
01:21:00 The rise of Shiism

Iran, a power revealed
Director: Jean Michel Vecchiet
Authors: Jean Michel Vecchiet, JeanFrancois Colosimo, Olivier Mille
Producers: ARTLINE FILMS, ARTE FRANCE
©ARTE 2008