The third season of Tehran treats viewers to the usual dose of thrills, spills and chills against the backdrop of Israel’s existential conflict with Iran.

It has been available on Apple TV in North America since January, but I belatedly caught up with the eight-part series several days ago. Tehran plays out amid bursts of intrigue, mayhem and violence in the streets and alleys of Iran’s sprawling capital, Tehran.

Characters have come and gone since season one in 2020, but three still remain at its center: Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan), an Iranian-born Mossad agent; Yulia Magen (Sara von Schwarze), her Mossad handler, and Faraz Kamali (Shaun Toub), an Iranian counter-intelligence agent and Tamar’s nemesis.

As per real events, Tehran is essentially about Iran’s highly controversial and suspect nuclear program and Israel’s ongoing efforts to sabotage it before the Iranian regime produces an atomic bomb that can threaten its very existence.

This crucial issue is at the heart of Tehran, which unfolds in Farsi, Hebrew and........

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