TEHRAN - Catching up with Stars Niv Sultan & Shaun Toub

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Fresh off the Israeli premiere, the thrilling new series TEHRAN hits the North American market!

Right from the get-go Tehran is an edge of your suspence roller coaster ride. A spy thriller that features Moshe Zonder, the writer of the first season of Netflix’s Fauda, as one of its creators, Tehran is a similarly a look at the conflict in the Middle East from the perspective of Israel and one of its enemies.

In this case that enemy is Iran, where an Israeli Mossad agent goes undercover on a mission to take out the country’s nuclear capabilities. Setting the series almost entirely in Tehran, enables it to provide a fascinating glimpse into different perspectives on Iran from a range of individuals, including those loyal to the Muslim government, pro-democracy dissidents and Jews who emigrated to Israel but still consider Iran their homeland.

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Most of the series is told through the eyes of young Mossad agent and computer whiz Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan), who was born in Tehran but fled with her family to Israel when she was a child. To carry out her mission in the country, she impersonates an Iranian citizen, but almost as soon as she gets started, everything that possibly could go wrong quickly does. This brings her to the attention of an airport security investigator, Faraz Kamali (Shaun Toub), whose single-minded devotion to his country’s security leads him to forego a planned trip to Paris where his beloved wife is scheduled to undergo brain surgery.

The show not only has political tension but the inner conflicts that the main characters have with their own internal struggles and loyalty to their homeland.

I spoke with the shows stars Niv Sultan and Shaun Toub, as well as writers Moshe Zonder and Dana Eden.

Both interviews are in the playlist below.

 “Tehran,” the new espionage thriller from “Fauda” writer Moshe Zonder, will premiere globally Friday, September 25 on Apple TV+. The eight-episode series will premiere with the first three episodes, followed by new episodes weekly, every Friday.