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On February 2023, it was announced that Tehran will have a third season.

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On In February 2023, it was announced that Tehran will have a third season.
season. The second season was released May 6th, 2023.
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''Tehran'' is a 2020 Israeli drama series created by Moshe Zonder, who wrote for ''Series/{{Fauda}}'', for the Israeli channel Kan 11. Creator/AppleTVPlus is responsible for streaming the show online outside of Israel. Cineflix is in charge of distribution rights. Niv Sultan is the leading star with a cast of actors/actresses of Israeli and Iranian heritage. Because of historical and current tensions and lack of diplomatic relations between Iran and Israel, the show is produced in Athens, Greece.

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''Tehran'' is a 2020 Israeli drama series created by Moshe Zonder, who wrote for ''Series/{{Fauda}}'', for the Israeli channel Kan 11. Creator/AppleTVPlus is responsible for streaming the show online outside of Israel.Israel on May 6, 2022. Cineflix is in charge of distribution rights. Niv Sultan is the leading star with a cast of actors/actresses of Israeli and Iranian heritage. Because of historical and current tensions and lack of diplomatic relations between Iran and Israel, the show is produced in Athens, Greece.



On January 26, 2021, it was announced that the show will see a second season. It was released under Apple TV Plus on May 6, 2022.

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On January 26, 2021, February 2023, it was announced that the show Tehran will see have a second season. It was released under Apple TV Plus on May 6, 2022.
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On January 26, 2021, it was announced that the show will see a second season. It's due to be released under Apple TV Plus on May 6, 2022.

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* HopeSpot: Arezoo gets to have a meeting with her daughter, who assumes this is because Qasem Mohammadi is going to pardon her and her husband for helping out Tamar in the previous season. [[spoiler: Qasem instead has Arezoo and Dariush executed]]

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* BittersweetEnding: The second season ends with Qasem taken out by Tamar. [[spoiler:However, Milad's killed in a rigged sedan while he and Tamar try to escape Iran.]]



** "Blood Funeral" has Faraz turned to work alongside Mossad. [[spoiler:Also Milad dies after getting into a car that was rigged to blow up.]]

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** "Blood Funeral" "Betty" has Faraz turned to work alongside Mossad. [[spoiler:Also Also, Milad dies tries to hack the brakes on Peyman's car when he races with his father. However, the ending implies that he didn't time the brake jam right that Peyman crashed and flipped after getting into a the car that was rigged to blow up.]]smashed on the brick barrier of a highway.
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** "Betty" is not the name of a person. [[spoiler:It's one of the sports cars Qasem worked on and gave to Peyman for him to use.]]
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** "Blood Funeral" has Faraz turned to work alongside Mossad.

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** "Blood Funeral" has Faraz turned to work alongside Mossad. [[spoiler:Also Milad dies after getting into a car that was rigged to blow up.]]
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** "Blood Funeral" has Faraz turned to work alongside Mossad.
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** "Faraz's Choice" has Faraz ''accidentally'' touch the poisoned tennis racket meant for Peyman. His health begins to go downhill to the point that he kept certain things such as being poisoned from Ali that he's being treated as a suspect. Worse... Faraz tries to get the pistol from Ali and the latter dies in the struggle. And the worse thing is that Mossad never considered a scenario where they needed to target him directly.
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** "13000" has the IAF pilot in Iran safely rescued, but the four Iranians who are supposedly responsible for ''helping'' Mossad teams in Tehran were executed by hanging.

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** "13000" has the IAF pilot in Iran safely rescued, but the four Iranians who are supposedly responsible for ''helping'' Mossad teams in Tehran were executed by hanging.[[note]]They're actually some of Tamar's distant relatives[[/note]]
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* WhamEpisode:
** "Five Hours Until the Bombing Run" ends with Yael being killed by Faraz after he storms a Mossad safehouse by himself. The Israeli Air Force has done their bombing run, but Yael's work with Iranian intelligence enabled them to nab a downed IAF pilot.
** "13000" has the IAF pilot in Iran safely rescued, but the four Iranians who are supposedly responsible for ''helping'' Mossad teams in Tehran were executed by hanging.
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* MythArc: Season 2 starts when Tamar is given orders to oversee the rescue of an Israeli Air Force pilot who was shot down over Iranian soil.
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* ActionGirl: Tamar is highly trained in combat, and displays her skills often in the series.



* DaddysGirl: Tamar is clearly very close with her father as seen from their brief interactions. The only time she [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness breaks down]] is when he's kidnapped, despite going through a whole ton of hardship during the first season.



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Faraz is a brutal, devoted agent of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and also utterly dedicated to his wife, who he loves dearly, though his duty comes first.



* TheMole: [[spoiler:Yael]] turns out to be a double agent in service to the Iranians.



* SweetPollyOliver: Tamar dresses up as a male security guard to sneak into an electrical station in the last episode of Season 1, complete with a fake mustache.



* VillainousRescue: Faraz inadvertently saves Tamar from [[spoiler:Yael]] when she's about to shoot her.
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* AdultFear:
** The Iranian man Tamar spoke to in "Emergency Landing in Tehran" is worried about his wife Zhila [[spoiler:after she had insisted to help Tamar do the op by swapping places at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport. He's worried that she'll never come back even after the op is over.]]
** Faraz later suffers the same thing when his wife is kidnapped by Mossad.
** Tamar later gets it too when her father is kidnapped.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Faraz shows no compunction at hitting women in his custody, and the Basij men don't spare Tamar either.

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* WouldHitAGirl: Faraz shows no compunction at hitting women in his custody, and the Basij men don't spare Tamar either.either.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Tamar's father expresses his sorrow over having had to leave Iran, his home country, for Israel after antisemitism increased following the Iranian Revolution (Tamar was born an Israeli). He doesn't blame the Iranians generally though, saying they are kind and generous, blaming it on the ruling Islamists. It's poignant and very sad to see just how much he missed Iran, keeping a photo album which holds pictures from his life there. Other Jewish Iranian expats express similar sentiments.
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On January 26, 2021, it was announced that the show will see a second season.

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On January 26, 2021, it was announced that the show will see a second season.
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* BadassIsraeli: All of the Mossad agents are highly competent, skilled agents, including the protagonist Tamar.

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All of the Mossad agents are highly competent, skilled agents, including the protagonist Tamar.
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** Averted with the two Israeli tourists in the first episode, who are clearly scared out of their mind to even be in Iran.
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* TheTheocracy: Iran is one, and it overshadows much of social life there, with Iranian dissidents religious restrictions imposed upon them which the Islamic Revolutionary Guards enforce. Many of the Iranian expats make it clear it's what they hate about Iran, while loving the country itself (and the people).

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* TheTheocracy: Iran is one, and it overshadows much of social life there, with Iranian dissidents against religious restrictions imposed upon them which the Islamic Revolutionary Guards enforce. Many of the Iranian expats make it clear it's what they hate about Iran, while loving the country itself (and the people).
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* TheMole: [[spoiler:Yael turns out to be a double agent in service to the Iranians.]]
* OhCrap: The Israeli couple flying from India to Jordan in "Emergency Landing in Tehran" when they find out that they've made a landing in Iran. [[ProperlyParanoid They are rightfully worried as Iran and Israel don't have diplomatic relations since 1979]]. After Faraz was able to get a transcript of the couple translated to Persian from Hebrew (thanks to a hidden camera) to get a lead on Tamar's presence, he's ordered to let them go due to Tehran's fears of creating an international incident since two Israelis detained in Tehran, even with no ambassadors, is not a good thing.

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* TheMole: [[spoiler:Yael [[spoiler:Yael]] turns out to be a double agent in service to the Iranians.]]
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* OhCrap: The Israeli couple flying from India to Jordan in "Emergency Landing in Tehran" when they find out that they've made a landing in Iran. [[ProperlyParanoid They are rightfully worried as Iran and Israel don't have haven't had diplomatic relations since 1979]]. After Faraz was able to get a transcript of the couple translated to Persian from Hebrew (thanks to a hidden camera) to get a lead on Tamar's presence, he's ordered to let them go due to Tehran's fears of creating an international incident since two Israelis detained in Tehran, even with no ambassadors, is not a good thing.



* SympatheticAdulterer: Tamar is revealed to have a partner in Israel after she's had sex with Milad. She clearly feels terrible about it, and probably only did so to get closer so he'd help with her operation.
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* DaddysGirl: Tamar is clearly very close with her father as seen from their brief interactions.

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* DaddysGirl: Tamar is clearly very close with her father as seen from their brief interactions. The only time she [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness breaks down]] is when he's kidnapped, despite going through a whole ton of hardship during the first season.



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Faraz is a brutal, devoted agent of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and also utterly dedicated to his wife, who he loves dearly.

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Faraz is a brutal, devoted agent of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and also utterly dedicated to his wife, who he loves dearly.dearly, though his duty comes first.

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* AdultFear: The Iranian man Tamar spoke to in "Emergency Landing in Tehran" is worried about his wife Zhila [[spoiler:after she insisted to help Tamar do the op by swapping places at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport. He's worried that she'll never come back even after the op is over.]]

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* AdultFear: ActionGirl: Tamar is highly trained in combat, and displays her skills often in the series.
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The Iranian man Tamar spoke to in "Emergency Landing in Tehran" is worried about his wife Zhila [[spoiler:after she had insisted to help Tamar do the op by swapping places at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport. He's worried that she'll never come back even after the op is over.]]]]
** Faraz later suffers the same thing when his wife is kidnapped by Mossad.
** Tamar later gets it too when her father is kidnapped.



* DaddysGirl: Tamar is clearly very close with her father from their interactions.

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* DaddysGirl: Tamar is clearly very close with her father as seen from their brief interactions.


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* TheTheocracy: Iran is one, and it overshadows much of social life there, with Iranian dissidents religious restrictions imposed upon them which the Islamic Revolutionary Guards enforce. Many of the Iranian expats make it clear it's what they hate about Iran, while loving the country itself (and the people).

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* AccidentalMurder: Tamar, when disguised as Zhila, fends off her (Zhila's) boss during a rape attempt, accidentally killing him.



* OhCrap: The Israeli couple flying from India to Jordan in "Emergency Landing in Tehran" when they find out that they've made a landing in Iran. [[ProperlyParanoid They are rightfully worried as Iran and Israel don't have diplomatic relations after 1979]]. After Faraz was able to get a transcript of the couple translated to Persian from Hebrew (thanks to a hidden camera) to get a lead on Tamar's presence, he's ordered to let them go due to Tehrna's fears of creating an international incident since two Israelis detained in Tehran, even with no ambassadors, is not a good thing.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Mossad's operation to disable Iranian anti-aircraft defenses for a potential Israeli air strike is (likely) inspired by the Israeli Air Force's air strike operation when they bombed the incomplete Osirak nuclear reactor.
* SpottingTheThread: Kamali was seen reviewing surveillance tapes of the women's restroom and noted that the Jordanian Airline stewardess (who happens to be Zhila) uses her right hand. He finds out that the switch was made since Tamar was seen in the stewardess uniform using her left hand.

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* AttemptedRape: Zhila's boss attempts to rape Tamar (who's disguised as her). It [[AccidentalMurder ends poorly]] for him.
* BadassIsraeli: All of the Mossad agents are highly competent, skilled agents, including the protagonist Tamar.
* CastingGag: Shaun Toub plays Faraz Kamali, a servant of Iran's Islamic regime who is the antagonist to Tamar, an Israeli Jew of Iranian descent. Toub is himself of Iranian Jewish descent, and left Iran like most did (including Tamar's family).
* DaddysGirl: Tamar is clearly very close with her father from their interactions.
* DirtyCop: A couple Iranian cops are bribed to let a car's passengers go without searching them.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Faraz is a brutal, devoted agent of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and also utterly dedicated to his wife, who he loves dearly.
* FakeKillScare: Faraz torments Masoud by seeming like he's about to shoot him, only it's empty.
* IHaveYourWife: Faraz frequently threatens people's relatives who he has in custody or can get to for cooperation from them. Later he suffers this himself when his wife is kidnapped by Mossad, and then inflicts it on Tamar to get her back by kidnapping her father.
* MissingMom: Tamar's mother died of cancer, and it was a slow, painful death.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Yael turns out to be a double agent in service to the Iranians.]]
* OhCrap: The Israeli couple flying from India to Jordan in "Emergency Landing in Tehran" when they find out that they've made a landing in Iran. [[ProperlyParanoid They are rightfully worried as Iran and Israel don't have diplomatic relations after since 1979]]. After Faraz was able to get a transcript of the couple translated to Persian from Hebrew (thanks to a hidden camera) to get a lead on Tamar's presence, he's ordered to let them go due to Tehrna's Tehran's fears of creating an international incident since two Israelis detained in Tehran, even with no ambassadors, is not a good thing.
* PrisonerExchange: Mossad arranges to have one for Masoud by kidnapping Faraz's wife. However, it falls apart.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Mossad's operation to disable Iranian anti-aircraft defenses for a potential Israeli air strike is (likely) inspired by the Israeli Air Force's air strike operation when they bombed the incomplete Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor.
reactor in 1981.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Milad's drug dealer friends test Tamar by having a couple pretend they're undercover cops. She passes by not ratting anyone out when "arrested" and fighting them off.
* SpottingTheThread: Kamali was seen reviewing surveillance tapes of the women's restroom and noted that the Jordanian Airline stewardess (who happens to be Zhila) uses her right hand. He finds out that the switch was made since Tamar was seen in the stewardess uniform using her left hand.hand.
* SweetPollyOliver: Tamar dresses up as a male security guard to sneak into an electrical station in the last episode of Season 1, complete with a fake mustache.
* SympatheticAdulterer: Tamar is revealed to have a partner in Israel after she's had sex with Milad. She clearly feels terrible about it, and probably only did so to get closer so he'd help with her operation.
* VillainousRescue: Faraz inadvertently saves Tamar from [[spoiler:Yael]] when she's about to shoot her.
* WouldHitAGirl: Faraz shows no compunction at hitting women in his custody, and the Basij men don't spare Tamar either.
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''Tehran'' is a 2020 Israeli drama series created by Moshe Zonder, who wrote for ''Series/{{Fauda}}'', for the Israeli channel Kan 11. Creator/AppleTVPlus is responsible for streaming the show online outside of Israel. Cineflix is in charge of distribution rights. Niv Sultan is the leading star with a cast of actors/actress of Israeli and Iranian heritage. Because of historical and current tensions and lack of diplomatic relations between Iran and Israel, the show is produced in Athens, Greece.

Tamar Rabinyan, [[ButNotTooForeign an Israeli of Iranian heritage]], is sent on a black op mission to Tehran to lead Mossad efforts in disabling Iranian anti-aircraft defenses near an Iranian nuclear reactor so that the Israeli Air Force can take it out in an airstrike without any casualties/lost planes.

However, things go wrong after she changes places with a local electric company employee named Zhila Gorbanifar. Her boss thinks that Tamar is Zhila and tries to sexually harass, only to be killed. Tamar is forced to hide from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards led by Faraz Kamali while she encounters and makes friend with pro-democracy activists in Iran.

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''Tehran'' is a 2020 Israeli drama series created by Moshe Zonder, who wrote for ''Series/{{Fauda}}'', for the Israeli channel Kan 11. Creator/AppleTVPlus is responsible for streaming the show online outside of Israel. Cineflix is in charge of distribution rights. Niv Sultan is the leading star with a cast of actors/actress actors/actresses of Israeli and Iranian heritage. Because of historical and current tensions and lack of diplomatic relations between Iran and Israel, the show is produced in Athens, Greece.

Tamar Rabinyan, [[ButNotTooForeign an Israeli of Iranian heritage]], is sent on a black op mission to Tehran to lead Mossad efforts in disabling Iranian anti-aircraft defenses near an Iranian nuclear reactor so that the Israeli Air Force can take it out in an airstrike without any civilian casualties/lost planes.

However, things go wrong after she changes places with a local electric company employee named Zhila Gorbanifar. Her boss thinks that Tamar is Zhila and tries to sexually harass, rape her, only to be killed. killed in self-defense. Tamar is forced to hide from the notorious Iranian Revolutionary Guards led by Faraz Kamali while she encounters and makes friend friends with pro-democracy activists in Iran.
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''Tehran'' is a 2020 Israeli drama series created by Moshe Zonder, who wrote for ''Series/{{Fauda}}'', for the Israeli channel Kan 11. Creator/AppleTVPlus is responsible for streaming the show online outside of Israel. Cineflix is in charge of distribution rights. Niv Sultan is the leading star with a cast of actors/actress of Israeli and Iranian heritage. Because of historical and current tensions and lack of diplomatic relations between Iran and Israel, the show is produced in Athens, Greece.

Tamar Rabinyan, [[ButNotTooForeign an Israeli of Iranian heritage]], is sent on a black op mission to Tehran to lead Mossad efforts in disabling Iranian anti-aircraft defenses near an Iranian nuclear reactor so that the Israeli Air Force can take it out in an airstrike without any casualties/lost planes.

However, things go wrong after she changes places with a local electric company employee named Zhila Gorbanifar. Her boss thinks that Tamar is Zhila and tries to sexually harass, only to be killed. Tamar is forced to hide from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards led by Faraz Kamali while she encounters and makes friend with pro-democracy activists in Iran.

The official Hebrew website [[https://www.kan.org.il/page.aspx?landingpageid=1211 is here]].

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* AdultFear: The Iranian man Tamar spoke to in "Emergency Landing in Tehran" is worried about his wife Zhila [[spoiler:after she insisted to help Tamar do the op by swapping places at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport. He's worried that she'll never come back even after the op is over.]]
* OhCrap: The Israeli couple flying from India to Jordan in "Emergency Landing in Tehran" when they find out that they've made a landing in Iran. [[ProperlyParanoid They are rightfully worried as Iran and Israel don't have diplomatic relations after 1979]]. After Faraz was able to get a transcript of the couple translated to Persian from Hebrew (thanks to a hidden camera) to get a lead on Tamar's presence, he's ordered to let them go due to Tehrna's fears of creating an international incident since two Israelis detained in Tehran, even with no ambassadors, is not a good thing.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Mossad's operation to disable Iranian anti-aircraft defenses for a potential Israeli air strike is (likely) inspired by the Israeli Air Force's air strike operation when they bombed the incomplete Osirak nuclear reactor.
* SpottingTheThread: Kamali was seen reviewing surveillance tapes of the women's restroom and noted that the Jordanian Airline stewardess (who happens to be Zhila) uses her right hand. He finds out that the switch was made since Tamar was seen in the stewardess uniform using her left hand.

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