” is a show that looks at Iran through an alternately adversarial and nostalgic lens. The protagonist, Mossad agent Tamar Rabinyan , infiltrates the nation following an emergency landing of a passenger jet in the capital city; she is on a mission that, should it succeed, will have the long-tail effect of thwarting what the viewer is made to understand are Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The series’s adversarial side comes through in Tamar’s mission, and in the people she encounters. Its nostalgia stems from the idea that she, indeed, is one of them, a citizen of an Iran that was: She was born in Iran and lived there until her family fled, and has both family ties and a sense of Iran as a place worthy of her saving it. A relationship with a figure in the Iranian opposition as well as time spent with Arezoo, an aunt who remained behind , cement that sense.
As television, the show, created by Moshe Zonder is flawed: At least a few episodes too long, lacking plausibility or tension, turgid when it wants to be zippy. As a document of its moment, it feels built to flatter the present-day American posture towards Iran, treating its threat as beyond negotiation, worth engaging with only to dismantle.
It is hardly an endorsement of the present-day Iranian regime to suggest that a show called “Tehran,” one that assays a nation that has undergone seismic and chaotic change in living memory, might make more sense were it really about Iranians living in Tehran. It might be more apropos to follow the struggles and dramas and doubts and triumphs of citizens, and to eke out criticism of the state that way.
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