Inside the US-Iran Shadow War for Control of the Middle East

Back in March we sent a crew, including VICE Founder Suroosh Alvi, to Iran. We wanted to do a story about a rash of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists - most recently Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, head of the country’s nuclear program. We ended up getting unprecedented access, from Tehran to Baghdad, into the sprawling shadow war between the US and Iran for the heart of the Middle East.
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[@ghostman6693]

This is like vice from the old days . No sensationalism , no hipster editorial.....pure behind the lines non partisan journalism .great work guys please keep these stories coming

[@aliwakanda7327]

@A when u see something u don’t like, u get butthurt. Got it.

[@truenews8357]

@A Anything that doesn't lick America's boot is pro Iran to you. You are so brainwashed.

[@chadnelson1777]

This is not non partisan lol. 4 minutes into and vice is justifying for the mullah’s 🤣

[@branjosnow6244]

It's pro Iranian propaganda dude. Anything critical of Iran doesn't make it out of Iran. Im sorry for being the bearer of bad tidings, but a country that yells Death to other nations before breakfast, isn't going to have a nuclear weapon, not now, not ever. Give it up and the sanctions will disappear and prosperity will come. This was indeed an assassination, of someone making it possible for crazy people to kill millions of other people. No collateral damage, just the bomb maker and their henchmen. A good day for humanity no matter what this scientists race, religion or philosophy was. It'd be like handing a room of toddlers a box of razor blades and expecting them to be careful. Just to add, I'll bet the Saudis were hunky dory with this assassination.

[@aliwakanda7327]

@A how is this a regime propaganda video? So by ur standard, every news produced by an American news outlet can be classified as ‘American propaganda’ cuz they all portray Iran as a total devil.

[@catchcountcostas]

Much better than “I eat Mac n cheese 24/7” documentaries..will start watching VICE again now

[@syguy3599]

I will not unless they eat Mac n cheese in Iran

[@jurgenrembrandt1349]

Nowaday, they have to make these kind of ridicolous content to make money, in order to then be able to produce more serious stuff like this video. its the same with buzzfeed. they recently got some kind of award for theit journalism. all the stupid video content buzzfeed is known for during the last years are just there to get them money, so they can pay their real journalists who do some real good work

[@saooran7364]

And it looks like they toned propaganda down, in favour of journalism.

[@Mogueless]

'US-IRAN Shadow War for the control of Mac n Cheese'

[@kylegood2622]

How dare you mock the struggle of mac n cheese guy. F**k Kraft! Viva Velveeta!

[@VICENews]

WATCH NEXT: Inside Afghanistan’s Death Valley - kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGHSZWCgndOUfdU

[@Notorious_conor]

No judgements, pure first hand information. Absolutely amazing 10/10 documentary

[@drugoviic]

thats how journalists stay alive in these countries where everyone has a terrorist mindset

[@Yourczarmine]

“We are in a hotel in an undisclosed location in Tehran.” *camera immediately shows the view out the window for all the amateur geolocators out there”

[@pooyakhalaji4261]

Indeed it showed one of the famous building in tehran which i see on a daily basis

[@K4lamityInc]

Thank you for saying this as it was my first thought as well. Pretty amateurish of them considering the decent quality of the rest of the documentary.

[@eri.ssddseff]

yes the guy above is right indentifying that place would take probably 5 minutes for average tehrani

[@prabhjotbrar4524]

Yeah that's why they showed it. They are not stupid to show the real location.

[@chelseafcrocks82]

Geoguessr fans unite

[@birbtw0]

If you had to summarize geopolitics in the Middle East, I think your sentence would be perfect: "..the reality is a lot more complicated."

[@Fahad-mo1tq]

Not that complicated, Iran want to be in control of the region so the send their militia to Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen and you can see clearly that any country that Iran involved with turned to failed states. There four major player in the region Saudi Arabia, Iran, turkey and Israel. Israel have the ultimate support from the west so they are attacking sites inside Iran and Syria.

[@aryankn8307]

@Fahad please dont tell joke that conutry failed every where is israeil and USA

[@CashMoolah00]

Religion tied to government is bad

[@ZzLiGHTNiNGzZ]

Not really. Imperialism trying to imperial

[@edwardelric2130]

@@CashMoolah00in wich way?

[@Bitchslapper316]

This is the vice I subscribed to a long time ago. Thanks for this.

[@jekin416]

Iran is totally heartbreaking...what a history, culture and civilization. Every Iranian I've met in Canada are excellent people

[@dieselboy610]

Agreed!

[@MahsaJinaAmini]

Thank you 🙏

[@thevanquisher2722]

What do u mean by heart breaking ?

[@CelticsMr17]

Their people different from their government, cant forget those protest for a girl tortured and killed because of hijab thing, they forgot all the dictatorship and went all out on the streets, strong people and great human beings, but the government, as a ukrainian i hate it

[@moizen622]

@@CelticsMr17 Their people, different from their government, cannot forget these demonstrations for a man killed because of his skin color, they forgot all the manipulation of the system and took to the streets, strong people and great human beings, but the government, as Iranian, I hated it

[@ZivineYT]

40 minutes? Hold on let me grab some snackies

[@chrisx1197]

My guy

[@occupymars4207]

I hate it when they're around 8 minutes.

[@ret1608]

@@occupymars4207 you could be doing burpees when you watch them

[@dellyrosexcoastnobodycoast8721]

Snackies ahh this comment made me smile xD let's go !

[@joycewoodruff5421]

Please this ain't no snacks news.

[@eattheflag]

Listening to Suroosh is like stepping back in time with old school vice.

[@amir3515]

Also it reminds me of Bob from bobs burgers

[@DannyTannerSF]

You mean before they were BLM/Antifa puppets?

[@eattheflag]

@@DannyTannerSF pretty much? They were still cool when. They visited North Korea and train hopping etc. Once HBO picked them up it kind of went 📉

[@shanes.9016]

Reminds me when they actually did journalism.

[@yugom488mmmauser2]

He's so old now. When he took off his glasses, he looked so old.

[@jeremiahs585]

Feels like I'm a kid watching vice again. Thank god whoever you put in to create this gave it that original vice feeling 🙌

[@FABESTAH]

It can be quite challenging to fully comprehend the various influences and factors at play in the Middle East, contributing to all the difficulties, disputes, and confrontations. To truly grasp the value and information provided by this documentary, one definitely must delve deeper, gather more information, and then revisit it with an enriched understanding, and only then can one form a well-founded opinion on the situation as a whole.

[@CyberWallX]

I did all that and the common factor of everything wrong in these sh*tholes is islam.

[@steveoh2395]

They live under a theocracy, its not that complicated, its like europe during the dark ages

[@evolutiongaming1421]

⁠@@steveoh2395brother you have the richest countries around the world using the Middle East as a proxy battleground, mixed in with their own beliefs and systems. It’s acc is that complex, it’s not gonna be one answer to solve the problem.

[@anonyme2878]

chat gpt ahh comment

[@militarydocumentariesinc.7007]

Back to the roots on vice , these are the type of documentaries we seek.

[@sinabagherisarvestani8924]

well this totally sucks , both Iran the the US and the Iraqi and Arab Shia militia groups and others in the region should work together rather than work against each other , Biden should work on improving relations with Iran , I think good relations between Iran and the US would be a good thing . There is a lot of areas where Iran and the US can cooperate , Iran is one of the biggest Muslim majority countries in the world while the US has one of the largest Muslim populations in North America , so there is a lot the countries have in common and they should deescalate .

[@terrybutler5286]

So far so good. Back to Reality,😇👍 And Amazing Content!!

[@darkassassin6457]

@Elite. Inc. Imagination. no, no one cares about your channel after you post a link to it in a comment thread for no reason.

[@441rider]

They started pushing cheap club sex and drug use. Facts, started as a crap free tabloid. Total leftie grifters,

[@nathancook8426]

@@sinabagherisarvestani8924 will never happen the US will keep finding funding proxy terror groups in the middle east to poke at Iran and keep the middle east destabilized. America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests' -Henry Kissinger

[@richpryor9650]

The dude said kilometers and they translated it to miles, I'm fucking dead.

[@andresmartinezramos7513]

LMAO

[@shush1506]

I thought they'd convert it to football fields to be honest

[@dimmacommunication]

@@shush1506 I still remember the doggy sized pothole 😂😂😂

[@BicyclesMayUseFullLane]

Ehh, only off by a factor of 1.6, close enough for government work.

[@barbaralynnjoy3840]

@IRGC Just as soon as y’all accept Jesus as your lord and savior, get right with God and you can live in peace.

[@ItsJakeStuff]

I bet that's not a term you are going to hear in English very often - "I've never been so happy to make it to Baghdad!" Love your work Suroosh!

[@alfonsoportugal6754]

Outstanding documentary!!!! I loved it. I also watched the one you made in Ghaza.

[@BeirutBallin]

These documentaries are necessary to preserve the integrity of press worldwide. Keep pumping out these reports on foreign affairs, Vice!

[@AA-rc1ny]

Unfortunately they usually spread misinformation. I literally met the Israeli agents (I’m from there) responsible. This cannot be farther from the truth.

[@camiscooked]

@@AA-rc1ny Ah yes of course, you are the bastion of truth! You're story of how you 'met a guy' changed the way I view this footage. I'm sure the people who made it were dumb anyways, surely YOU must know the truth.

[@Charles-pf7zy]

@@camiscooked it’s true bro, I was the remote controlled machine gun

[@prajwas2004]

@@AA-rc1ny i think you would call stuff coming out of your asscrack disinformation too. Give it a rest. Don't have to freak out on seeing an Iranian documentary ok random guy who says he "spoke to people"

[@backpackpepelon3867]

Vice trying to red pill as much people as they can, which is nice.

[@thesouroppe4460]

What amazes me about Iran is that they have done pretty well for themselves with those sanctions.

[@AfG_313]

@@therealforeignwolf Persians, Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras and Uzbeks have a long history

[@bijouxdoum6199]

@@user-fj5rd2st7b Many Americans are waking up from their sleep. The Great Satan has played their global plan and we are fighting back.

[@fahadaldowseri9821]

Iran has the second most drug smugglers according to UNODC.

[@arnavaz2955]

@@fahadaldowseri9821 another saudi , keep it up tr 0 lls 😂 , I think you talk too much as a country who built i s i s and a l q a e d a

[@lolololol957]

@@fahadaldowseri9821 bro wtf u talking about

[@kumail17]

After watching this documentary I would say one thing for sure Irani and Iraqis are extremely difficult to beat. You might kill their team mates but they come out stronger and stronger.

[@UncleBuZ]

just like cockroaches.

[@DariushHakhamaneah]

@@UncleBuZ just like humans. But if you are an animal ofc you will pick an example from them

[@theforce4579]

Sending respect from egypt to the people of Iran it was happening to our scientists before you as well israel doesn't want us to be a successful nations they make sure we don't get to the top

[@mehrdad2236]

This whole video is bullshit propaganda, I absolutely condemn any type of effort for spreading terror including the assassination of civilians whether scientists or other society classes but all people interviewed in this documentary are representatives and distributors of the regime's propaganda and there is enormous amounts of false facts stated in this piece of 40 minutes report

[@usamasair9681]

lmao, "we had asked state department if they had handed Iraq to Iran. They declined to comment"

[@arpanmukhoty1650]

🤣🤣🤣 tight slap in the face!!

[@maxtyson9035]

What is the meaning of imao.

[@jibjub2121]

ie "Yes"

[@amirmohammadsadraie9545]

That is not true the Iraqi government is boycutting Iran's money there because of the USA sanctions those soldiers in the Iraqi who are fighting against ISIS are resistance fighters

[@fitwithkaweh7000]

Iraq had always been a part of the greater Iran. Bagdad means in old Persian "God given". The west has separeted/colonized all these countries around Iran from them.

[@stevieb931]

I like how he interviewed like 10 high rank officials yet the US state department can't answer 1 question.

[@solarpanel8195]

Yup thats our beautiful government forya. No justification for anything they do, literally 0 accountability. They dont have to stand for ANYTHING, they do ANYTHING they want to do, and no one does a goddamn thing about it.... This cant go on forever. Eventually people in society either have to reach a tipping point and revolt, OR, just become their bitches willingly and be totally controlled willingly.. which is pretty much already happening.. sheep to the slaughter...

[@jwill6762]

The Biden administration is so transparent LMAO 😂😂.

[@Daddy-ko2jn]

There to focused on diversity training to do anything else. The navy surrendered two vessels to Iran because of how unprepared they now are

[@jwill6762]

@Zea Maze Barack and Biden kiss Iran's ass trump kills the generals. See any difference?

[@OPTIC23100]

@Zea Maze the clown stopped replying 😂

[@redemption8980]

Iran is a beautiful country i hope to visit one day.

[@praetorianstride5948]

It is and seems to be more when the past was influencing individuals to become more… individual. Watch videos of Iran in the 70s. Their people had a chance and it was all taken away.

[@DariushHakhamaneah]

@@praetorianstride5948 in what dream world you are living?I am not even going to start a argument with a day dreamer

[@deesatch2519]

Then go now and if your a women make sure to let your hair down

[@aprendoespanol6833]

it is indeed. I visited last month. Was there for couple of weeks. Tehran, Qom Mashhad, Shiraz, persepolis, Isfahan. All amazing places. One side effect of all these sanctions is that it is still genuine and untouched by mass tourism.

[@afsane_nezhadi]

​@@deesatch2519am Iranian womens are free hijab now from Islamic laws

[@3gbros943]

Thank you so much for the documentary.

[@meismax]

This is what the original Vice documentaries were like before their partnership with HBO (which has now ended). Please keep making these type of documentaries, they are great!

[@jimoneprism]

On any good vice video there is ALWAYS this comment. Are you guys just copying and pasting it everywhere?

[@apsintrapsin3073]

no wonder they started doing the old style content that made them, they escaped their hbo shackles and have creative control again yay

[@solarpanel8195]

Vice could start a revolution if they tried hard enough. Seriously. The next big revolution NEEDS to happen soon... but it has to be Out of the Box. Like millions going off the grid living off the land, to starve out all the corrupt assholes at the top that own everything. Unplug from the game until they have so little that they're Weak. Then, we jump back in the game with strategy... You dont just keep going along playing a game when the other people are cheating...you unplug that damn controller and find a different game until they stop or die off...

[@mr.crowgamer6250]

@@jimoneprism pretty much they know the algorithm

[@ObeySilence]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXa6o52ZaamLp6c

[@geniemiki]

I love something about the co-founder of a media empire still gets himself into situations where he is detained at a border crossing in the Middle East.

[@RonnieRawdawg]

well he is one of the only middle easterns at vice, if they sent one of their soyboys they would get beheaded

[@macroxela]

@@RonnieRawdawg you just need someone who can blend in. I'm Hispanic but when I travelled to Iran everyone thought I was a local until I told them where I was from.

[@gfuentes8449]

yeah, maybe after being forced to fire hundreds of employees they figured out that people are interested in news and not social justice bullshit.

[@Ace_of_DiscaL]

#Broke

[@bamxire8845]

Aye because the owner Rupert Murdoch is to busy hacking peoples phones and working in the dark as the devil himself lol

[@bilbofloggins7713]

Great documentary. The little comedy break starting with the joke about finishing the movie with the silly camera and then jokes about eating flamingos really tied it together.

[@TheAwesomeGingerGuy]

The subtitles are strangely sometimes very wrong. For example 33:30 - he actually said 'I can say that Soleimani [had] more relations with the Kurds than we did' (I'm not sure about the "than we did" part, but Vice's translation was definitely wrong).

[@fortesfortunaadiuvat2181]

I served in Iraq in late 2005 as a Marine right when the Iranian’s starting making moves in Iraq. I will never forget what our CO told us during the end of a long debrief in the Green Zone about the Iranians/Persians. He said “Never underestimate the same people who invented chess.” Almost 20 years later and those words still send chills down mine spine to this day.

[@titchblackbeard8270]

"people who invented chess" and romans both get defeated simultaneously by muslims kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGPGdnx6j9x6a68

[@joydevsarkar4474]

Chess was invented in INDIA ( ACTUAL NAME SATRANGE)

[@persianfire6139]

You fought and sacrificed for Iran, thank you.

[@mahdiadib9295]

@@titchblackbeard8270 show us the video of the muslims being persianized as well while youre at it

[@outlawfly664]

@@joydevsarkar4474 Not really, the prototype version of chess was founded in India, but it was Persia who set up it's rules and spread the game throughout the world, same goes for backgammon, during the rule of Khosrow I in the Sassanid empire, also known as the immortal soul.

[@Big_Baby_Jesus]

I need to give credits to Suroosh Alvi for bringing this story is such a calm way. The mess he's experiencing is bringing shivers down my spine

[@edwardfranklin18]

He's Pakistani! He's seen and reported on far worse!

[@joebloggs5318]

Oh come on this stuff is just a regular day. People in that unstable shithole get assassinated all the time.

[@montmorencythedog9580]

I don't know, this seems kind of biased. Watch from 1:33. Iran was "distraught" because a plane "was shot down" over their capitol. From Wikipedia: On 8 January 2020, the Boeing 737-800 operating the route was shot down shortly after takeoff from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). All 176 passengers and crew were killed. I bet they were distraught when they killed 176 innocent people....

[@norkid5207]

@@edwardfranklin18 actually he is Canadian who was born to Pakistani immigrants but yeah his skills are really good

[@mnkpop5858]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIPYdqSod5l3g7M

[@BeExcellent21Another]

Great journalism, thanks.

[@MR-qx1rd]

Iran is so beautiful and powerful

[@cupcake8669]

I just noticed how beautiful Iran is.

[@theemperor1379]

That's why you should look up iran instead of watching ppl talk about it on Faux news and CNN lol.

[@theemperor1379]

@@flyhigh9681 Shows you've never been to iran and know nothing about it.

[@kungenkingen4605]

@@theemperor1379 well I have multiple times and he is completely right. And you don’t need to go there to understand the shitpile of a country it is.

[@syedmuqeettm8312]

@@flyhigh9681 america makes the world ugly

[@immortal5563]

that's what i hear from every tourists here lol you're welcome anytime

[@Axemantitan]

After he mentioned that he was 10 1/2 hours from Tehran, but still in Iran, I looked up how big Iran is. It's about 1.65 million square kilometers. By comparison, Alaska is about 1.72 million square kilometers. Iran is huge.

[@kandishm8575]

it is indeed huge...its also a 4 season nation...East a desert...south is more Mediterranean like,,,west is cold and snowy and mountainy is North and North west is green and lush full of forests and rice fields

[@OPTIMUMELITE]

@@kandishm8575 Damn that's crazy. It's honestly crazy dude. Everything that is apart of life all together.

[@monarchistheadcrab8819]

And it used to be even bigger, till the Ottomans, Russians, and Brits(in this exact pattern) came in and cut it into pieces.

[@maquacr7014]

@@kandishm8575 Pakistan is much smaller yet it is also a 4 season country. It also has all of the things you mentioned including world's tallest snowy mountain ranges. It honestly depends on topography of a country.

[@perzonne6302]

yeah man....

[@Taking_the_break]

Honestly they have some very good points and I’m definitely gonna start questioning strikes against nations.

[@aka47269]

Iran is a lovely country people are so welcoming and friendly ❤ ❤️💚🖤

[@mohammd2809]

Keep doing these let the people know this is so less talked about globally

[@gm9413]

@Cecil Stanley When you realise US created Al qaeda and helped spread ISIS

[@proger1960]

@Cecil Stanley Did you forget that the U.S. made Iran an enemy in the first place ? We literally used to be best allies with them until 79 revolution

[@sohasabet1590]

@@proger1960 yeah Until they attacked your embassy and took Americans hostage. I'm Iranian and how they're depicting Iran is not true. they're dictators that are killing millions of Iranian. they shot more than 3 thousand people last year because of peacefully protesting.

[@proger1960]

@@sohasabet1590 True

[@mistergeopolitics4456]

@@sohasabet1590 Yeah peaceful protests where mko elements and cia sponsored thugs blew up gas stations and torched public property. There was nothing peaceful about the protests. They were violent riots.

[@sabirzain5053]

"In the US, Iran's behavior has been seen as Imperialism" The pot calling the kettle black.

[@user-qv4nb6tu6t]

@Bannedforthe 10thtimeinayearfortruth Who? if you mean the US then yes

[@schneejacques3502]

Iran, US, Saudi Arabia, russia and Turkey are all imperialistic in the middle east.

[@thekraken1173]

@@schneejacques3502 Guess what it is our own fucking region if it is your own region it is not imperialism.

[@thekraken1173]

@@schneejacques3502 Next people like you will call our border patrols foreign missions. You already call Turkish border security operations with permit from Syria “invasion”.

[@baronvonsnazzy3355]

@Bannedforthe 10thtimeinayearfortruth We (America) already have…

[@octaveful]

Vice can you do more documentaries like this? Can we contribute in any way to make this happen?

[@saeedmohammadzadeh2957]

You want more documentaries like this filled with lies and full of deciet? I can give you that just ask me about any matter in the world and I come with something.

[@planetcaravan2925]

​@@saeedmohammadzadeh2957did you come up with anything?

[@lukasholgersson2851]

Glad good vice documentaries are back!

[@chinmayramesh1973]

I love how Suroosh makes everything 10x better. I hope Vice is back.

[@flexxer4176]

Vice is back? What you mean

[@DireAvenger001]

@@flexxer4176 as if the decline of Vice has to be explained. Cmon man

[@morgoth1946]

@@flexxer4176 they sold out to leftist ideology after HBO patnership

[@daylights7323]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWfZhKiOgpeGoqM ..

[@bigmad6791]

@@morgoth1946 no dummy. Vice is own by bike bloomberg, a democrat. Obviously they would be leftist. They even had smear campaigns and anti biden videos during the elections

[@thegreatest1176]

tehran is extremely beautiful

[@freshfrozen3035]

Iran is underrated, it’s has deserts, mountains, jungles, artic LIKE mountains/terrain.

[@jasersafdari2054]

Thanks bro, come to mashad city, be my guest

[@bubuluwithagoldendudul9709]

Be our guest mate

[@Truthseiker87]

@@jasersafdari2054 I would love to come

[@ehrgeiz5649]

@@freshfrozen3035 They have FORESTS that they like to call jungles... It is less "jungle" than the UP of Michigan. The Caspian Hyrcanian Mixed Forests ecoregion, in the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome, is an area of lush lowland and montane forests covering about 55,000 square kilometers (21,000 mi SQ) near the southern shores of the Caspian Sea of Iran and Azerbaijan.

[@smudgepost]

Fascinating countries and cultures but I wouldn't dream of going to visit without at least Suroosh Alvi as a guide!

[@unknown20005]

there is one thing i learned that applies to almost everyone essentially they start out good with good honest intentions but eventually somewhere down the line they slip and end up doing some not so good thing’s or they get forced under and have no choice but to do bad thing’s and some people either from experiences or trauma do bad thing’s because they became unstable or were betrayed by there family friend’s romantic partner or even country these thing’s happen all the time and this is also similar to a piece i made talking about villians in movies or show’s or video game’s that can also apply to here some people are just born evil some people are made evil by there experiences or trauma or betrayal or whatever else alot of it is just people trying to do what they think is right even though it might be wrong or wrong in the eyes of other’s and nobody is immune to this not iraq not iran not america not anyone everyone has done stuff they probably should not of it’s just how thing’s are and even if there was some other life in space as smart or smarter then us it’s probably the same thing and they make mistakes it’s the simple principles of good and evil just everyone blows it way out of proportion no matter who you are no matter what country you are there are good and bad people that’s just life and sometimes bad people get into positions of power i have never had interest in voting for president because in my opinion all the presidents of recent since i have been of age to vote suck and are not worth the vote

[@khanabdulrehman3913]

The cat 🐈 sitting on the tank was cute 5:06

[@poorang900]

Right it was a badass kitty

[@patrickkirby6580]

PERSIAN CATS

[@TheScholar1]

Then the shot pans to two bin bags

[@3232ins]

T55 or T54

[@kennishagoldbren7928]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWfZhKiOgpeGoqM ....

[@_robustus_]

Trillions of dollars wasted, countless lives lost, Iran won, and a number of American corporations laughed all the way to the bank…

[@f-86zoomer37]

@aki hiko Not necessarily true. Iran's influence in Iraq runs deeper than you're led to believe. One can look at the incompetence the US army and the corruption of the Iraqi government. You can literally already see their people really do not like us, especially when we blew up the guy who was the most effective fighter against ISIS in Iraq. They have memorials for Soleimani everywhere in Iraq. Do they have any for Trump, or any US Army general?

[@cheifwaffle]

Its almost like america was the bad guys and couldve just left them alone

[@_robustus_]

@@f-86zoomer37 You’re right. That’s how Iran won.

[@ameyas7726]

@@f-86zoomer37 lol Iran's "influence"...you mean Iran's occupation and infiltration of Iraq....Do you honestly believe Iran that single handedly props up Islamist groups like Hezbollah, Hamas etc had no hand in the creation of ISIS in Iraq, literally their neighboring backyard!!?....Iranians haven't forgotten the years of bloody war that Iran waged on Iraq...Iranian occupiers are seen by Iraqi's today as more of a threat than the white American who can be spotted easily and will eventually leave the country, just as they did in Obama years...but Iranian occupiers are here to stay and are illegally propping up memorials of terrorists like Soleimani, whose portraits were torn down even inside Iran itself after Iranian Islamist guards shot down Iranian plane and denied the killing of hundreds of passengers on board for days..

[@f-86zoomer37]

​@@ameyas7726 The US armed and supplied ISIS with weapons before they turned on us. Just take a look at ISIS convoys. Why do they own American Abrams tanks and humvees? Why are they using American TOW missiles to blow up Syrian T-72 tanks and using US-made MANPADS systems to shoot down Russian jets and helos?

[@isak7976]

Love Iran ❤️ From Norway

[@afsane_nezhadi]

Am persian love Norway 🇮🇷💓

[@Consington]

Access is stunning. Well done.

[@stevemartinez6826]

I have traveled to Iran, the Iranian people are really lovable and cultured

[@Omer1996E.C]

So...?

[@awddfg]

Meanwhile americans are busy defending transformer rights and trying to create new genders.

[@FenrirHdz38328]

You can travel at any part of the world and you can find lovable people everywhere, everyone is lovable and fun until they're not.

[@awddfg]

@@FenrirHdz38328 Not really in america. Maybe not even in your country.

[@FenrirHdz38328]

@@awddfg or maybe you are just an unhappy and unlikable guy who no one wants to speak to because you are better, but it's not America's people fault it's yours.

[@trenaceandblackmetal5621]

"...It makes me envy those who have become martyrs. That they left me alone on earth." Absolutely based af

[@cask1]

Right

[@neutralmilkbaby]

100% based. Hard times make strong men!!

[@ThePizzaGoblin]

Based on what? Wanting to die is for losers.

[@4rfghu89oikjhgre3sdf]

The naivety of you westerners are ridiculous and lamentable at the same time 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ Bad news is , it's the exact thing that dictaorial goverments ( in this case islamic regime ) - at times even so viciously - prey upon to abuse and take advantage of . Good news is , i guess there is a hope that with the help of internet this form of cluelessness will diminish if not outright eliminated . ( of courese the prerquisite for this is , islamic regime won't completely censor the internet , something which khamenei is so enthusiastic to do in the near future ; and if you don't know him either , he is the supreme leader and yes he is an avid fan of North Korea ofcourse ) Everyone who lives in islamic regime knows this is one of the most commen/preconstructed phrases that goverment officials say roboticllay when asked questions like this one in this occasion . And as you can see in the middle of this video the journalist guy ( after got out of islamic regime ) said there were SIX people from SIX intelligence agencies ( let that sink in ) who followed him evereywhere he went . Certainly that could help ( that guy ) to answer even more carefully . And please use the islamic regime instead of Iran as much as you can , they're not Iranians . They don't see themselves as Iranians they would tell it to you themselves ( at least it's not among the first things that with which they would have an affinity/sympathy ) , and people of Iran don't see them neither . Unlike the credulous interviewer like in this video who after went just to the predetermined locations with onlookers watching his every move and then made - in his view - an " unskewd " opinion about this place ; people in Iran know they're just shia ISIS vs the sunni one .

[@bny7y]

@@4rfghu89oikjhgre3sdf They're not Islamic either

[@juanmckelvey]

Excellent work!

[@Master-tz8xk]

The woman reporter deserves a medal. What she does and goes is extremely dangerous but she is courageous

[@ushdgdy8114]

I’ve said it to others before, Vice has the some of the stupidest stories on Snapchat, website, etc, but the large majority of their youtube videos are always great. Extremely good at delivering information in a manner easy to understand and intriguing enough to bring viewers to subjects they may not care about.

[@mrrodriguezHLP]

It's the nature of the beast. The clickbait pays the rent and funds real journalism like this story.

[@dlf7789]

These stories cost millions upon millions of dollars and require a lot of connections and care to get made. These are where their budget goes for the most part and it shows in their length. Entertainment pieces pay the bill so that these can be made. Even at Vices size this level of journalism its extremely expensive and dangerous due to the repercussions abroad and at home for those involved.

[@dlf7789]

@Patrick J Mims ngl that's pretty rude.

[@hypnotoad28]

@@dlf7789 Hope you get over it soon

[@ryo0ka936]

@@dlf7789 you did a fine job elaborating on the subject

[@alexb6336]

Gotta respect a dude who's worth 450 M$ that stills puts himself in situations where he gets stuck in an Iraki holding cell

[@Shaunt1]

Who has that much?

[@mattmmilli8287]

The vice cofounder in this video

[@wizzedcam]

*Iraqi

[@schadowizationproductions6205]

Wouldn't make a difference if he was a normal human's net worth (whatever value that would bring to the table).

[@whosthat2869]

that was taken out of context. they are obviously entering a country to document sensitive information its not that crazy i bet u my life if middle easterners were to try to enter usa to film about their politics much worse would happen.

[@MrJakegisme]

So glad to see Vice making quality content again 🙌

[@justisinus]

This is the type of news documentary truth seekers want to see. Top quality journalism, nothing less than the truth.

[@stephenduffy5406]

Killed by a remote control machine gun mounted on a car? Sounds like the work of Heisenberg to me.

[@coffeeaddicted4495]

xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[@dataninja6163]

:)))) so sad at same, his son was my class mate 15 years ago, never knew his father was that important

[@Sidhuhalalwala]

*BREAKING BAD INTENSIFIES*

[@hfar7007]

Damn so you mean Heisenberg was here in Iran? It's such a shame I couldn't take his autograph

[@Mr9mann]

The HeisenbergS.

[@coopertaylor8386]

As everyone else has said, phenomenal content, Vice. This is what I want to see and the world needs to see. Keep this up forever.

[@erickvelez2787]

Amen, people need to know about history!

[@anas-dg7qv]

Yes

[@AB_thingsDFW]

I was all into it till about 5 minutes already watched and I can feel all the anti Israel anti US messages

[@rcb_reddit]

Pure propaganda from Vice. Iran should be bombed back to the stone age.

[@kennishagoldbren7928]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWfZhKiOgpeGoqM ..

[@rozhinkavandi3870]

I’m irainian, iam not religious at all. But haj soleymani is always in my heart.

[@macacodoartico6039]

Great documentary. He heard directly from the actors involved, without any judgment.

[@LANeverSleeps]

I wish countries could just settle it with a paintball fight

[@Clan_AlbertheGrey]

Same.

[@diegolopez276]

Between the politicians

[@LuminaryCursorem]

Simunition

[@anakiap.w1673]

Or a disstrack

[@diegolopez276]

@@anakiap.w1673 young Biden vs Lil Ali. Their freestyle will decide who wins this war.

[@sali3492]

I find it amazing how Iran stays relevant in Middle East since the birth of the First Persian Empire(Achaemenids)

[@mariyabiswas3391]

Except the Mongols, Macedonian empire.

[@alexaagerger3695]

@@mariyabiswas3391 You have listed empires that each lasted a whopping 2 minutes before collapsing. Their local presences died out immediately. Iran's remains.

[@sali3492]

@@mariyabiswas3391 U didnt get my comment. In any way, shape or form Iran overcame the conquerors culturally. When Macedonians came, they took over Persian customs. Same happened with Arabs and Mongols. But i was referring to how Iran and the people stayed relevant throughout history. In the middle ages u had the Safavids, now u have the Ayatollahids having influences(indirect control) over Iraq, parts of Lebanon, Yemen(via Houthis) and also Bahrain(people there supports Iran).

[@sali3492]

@@mariyabiswas3391 If Persians were not so lucky, they would be now close to extinct like the modernday Assyrians without any country etc, ruled by others as minority. Look at Mongolia, once a feared empire. Since the collapse of their great state, they are almost invisible. Personally i think Allah did the Persians/Iranians a favor by how well they treated Bani Israel(Muslims of those days) back then. Maybe that favor is to survive through centuries?

[@simonphoenix3789]

@@sali3492 I don't know about that... Iran's height was before Islam when the Persian empire was there. At that point it was probably one of the best places in the world to live compared to how violent and barbaric most places were.

[@souhaillam3694]

wow this docmentary is amazing!

[@Swormy097]

6:36 "on one hand it makes me envy those who were martyred" If you choose to fight them then understand that you are fighting a group who love to die more than you love to live!

[@whynot-tk1uz]

I wish they could’ve enjoyed the cake at least

[@Pizza_Pepperoni0]

This comment deserves way more upvotes ...

[@dahasolomon7314]

Right? Although I'm 95% sure that the so called ISIS member was just an Iranian intelligence officer. He mentioned several times about how he planned to "cause chaos in Iran" and "Destroy Iran" in a way that vilified his organization. Not exactly how zealot would be speaking about the organization he joined to attack his own nation.

[@mistergeopolitics4456]

@@dahasolomon7314 You would be surprised what jail can do to a person mentally. He's had alot of time to think about his actions and he wasn't lying, ISIS literally wanted to completely annihilate Iran. That was one of their main goals.

[@RoCK3rAD]

@@dahasolomon7314 being in an Iranian jail for years might’ve changed him

[@SwiggityPeanut]

@@dahasolomon7314 in most cases, Id agree with you, but if youve ever watched interviews with ISIS folks, that is exactly how they talk. Its all "create chaos, destroy false muslims and wipe out countries" That being said however, this guy I think is actually an Iranian actor of some sort.

[@harkness1720]

This feels like a prelude to a massive war

[@mgsxmike]

I mean it kinda looks like the world is ramping up to another global conflict

[@MrTsiolkovsky]

Harkness, that is because that's actually what is being sold to you...even through seemingly cautionary material like this. War is normalized by the sensationalist media. For clicks.

[@Praisestoallah7]

Ww3 💪

[@aaronabraham4630]

@@Praisestoallah7 please let it happen sooner. Please more ACTION, less talk.

[@Filo181.]

Iran is the biggesr threat after isis.

This is a solid piece. You should do a where are they now on it too

[@localhost6155]

Nice genre bro, imma have to look that one up. Don't think I ever heard of it.

[@calebpalomo8491]

Tehran looks beautiful

[@Alisonn2]

Where are you from?

[@calebpalomo8491]

You're god you should already know

[@gdi1093]

@@calebpalomo8491 LOLLL Touché hahaha

[@the.r32]

@@calebpalomo8491 🤣

[@nagihangot6133]

@@calebpalomo8491 It's probably the Western god, he has to ask because he is not omnipotent like the real God, but pretends to be Him all the same.

[@adamscott2580]

Watching this again as the us embassy is evacuated in Afghanistan.

[@brbrasil2010]

Iraq is a completely different ball of game

[@thetrigger-happykittens7921]

Hopefully the new Policy is Withdraw and watch the region eat itself. The Afghans and the Pakistanis are not too keen on the Chinese, Tajikistan is not warm and cozy to Afghanistan, etc... Oh and of course you have the Holdouts in N Afghanistan and Isis goin after the Taliban and the new Socially Conscious Women's Movement the Taliban are managing to transform into Martys. Not a good look. Meanwhile there's not just this Shadow War, it's a Cold WWIII. Just look at the 27 Ongoing Conflicts in Africa alone! The U.S., Russia, China, France and the U.K all have some form of presence or Military Contractors acting throughout Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central America and beyond. This is but a small portion of that struggle. However with Iran and its Nuke Program... thesis the area that has everyone sweating.

[@evobsm2328]

I must say... america is VERRY good in making enemies

[@Therealhamidreza]

17:06 wrong translations by purpose Amir Abudullahian The current foreign minister of Iran Said :Biden bombed (Targeted) the civilian groups that fighted against Desh(ISIS) But the translation is copeletely opposite by purpose : He(Biden) targeted the civilian groups of ISIS fighters in The Bu Kanal region,

[@Therealhamidreza]

As Farsi speaker I can confirm this documentary doesn't show the two sides of story COMPLETELY Here is why 16:37 If you look at it you notice that this was censored ['' One reason for this was that It was clear for us that (Americans.....................)''] this part(Americans) wasn't translated and also they cut the next part, His sentence was not copelete they CENSORED,

[@MichelMawon4982]

Very informative.

[@Brandonthesnifferofall]

Turn it to glass, but make sure all the vice reporters are there before hand 😂 lmao

[@SurvivalRussia]

VICE is back in it's original format. Great. I simply could not watch VICE, while under HBO domination...

[@getthegoods420]

that nuclear scientis got assainated after this video

[@ObeySilence]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXa6o52ZaamLp6c

[@ChristianPunk]

You misspelled "its."

[@ObeySilence]

@@ChristianPunk anarcho-outlaws hatin grammar anarchists

[@killuminatianonymous5551]

@@getthegoods420 are you sure? Is that why they put in the beginning?

[@entropicpedro]

"In the US, Iran's behavior has been described as imperialism" I'm glad to see the irony didn't go unnoticed...

[@danksanchez4324]

It’s not like that is exactly wrong it’s just, America of all countries can’t exactly be the ones to say this for obvious reasons

[@tangleize]

@@danksanchez4324 no it is exactly wrong, just stay away from Asia and Africa please, we don't want you to bring "Freedom" when you find oil or something valuable. It is not your war, it is the Middle East war.

[@danksanchez4324]

@@tangleize How is this relevant to what I said?

[@r3fus32d13]

@@danksanchez4324 anytime people say something factual about america theres always this one guy saying its whataboutism. So dumb. Just admit that USA is the biggest terrorist jeez

[@danksanchez4324]

@@r3fus32d13 it’s not whataboutism it’s just completely unrelated to what I said

[@NoOne-ol6dw]

there's a video between your ads

[@kimjongun1777]

Iran is one of the most developed and industrial countries in the Middle East

[@Vanalovan]

“We’ve captured a suicide bomber sir! What should we do with him?” “Hmm, let’s execute him.” “Sir, isn’t that just sort of a win-win for him?”

[@simorq6685]

Wow good point!

[@dlf7789]

if they wanna die at least make it a dishonorable death. Knowing they failed the only thing their life meant to their cause is an extremely shameful way to die.

[@yungwallzy]

pretty sure getting executed there is not gonna be fast they prob dont hang suicide bombers they probably lapidate them which hurts a lot and takes more time

[@emana.3562]

No it's not a win-win 😑 because he will not bomb innocent civilians while being executed

[@user-gb9gr7qv3b]

We should give them a life sentence and make them live a long painful life instead

[@voteZDLR]

"He was ambushed by a remote controlled machine gun, mounted onto a car which later exploded." So what you're telling me is that Heisenberg killed him.

[@rameezrazaali3325]

Yes the bergs did it 👃🇮🇱

[@nuttmc4803]

Breaking haram

[@MrMeiner1ner]

I hadn't known that Vice can also make decent documentaries. For me, Vice was actually always something loyal to the system, anti-citizen. But this post is really good and neutral. Thank you for the outstanding work.

[@ale1997co]

Crazy how much things change in a years time...

[@kjxkk5yearsago241]

America didn’t want any country to have nuclear weapons but America’s nuclear weapons is pointing at other country right now.

[@judaschavez7529]

Yeah and we stand ready to destroy the enemy's of the United States of America!

[@romanmanner]

@@judaschavez7529 Calm down Chavez, a lot of Americans would put people with that last name on the "kill list."

[@akshaybarjatiya6675]

@@judaschavez7529 lmao when there were nuclear missiles in Cuba your leaders were shitting....

[@user-ne1gv5ms2i]

@@judaschavez7529 your Mexican and Venezuelan brothers and sister would be first ones

[@simonphoenix3789]

Yes because the US is a nation that won't use those nuclear weapons unless attacked. If Iran gets their hands on them... that is a much bigger risk of a nuclear war because they support terrorists and are likely to try and find a way to send Nuclear weapons to one of those terrorists groups so they can attack the US or Israel. Iran hasn't exactly been shy about their intent to nuke Israel. Having a rogue state like Iran or North Korea with Nukes is very different from having a nation like the US that will never use them except to retaliate.

[@artinpurpose5100]

As an Iranian artist I have to say that your filming of Tehran's landscapes is so professional and cinematic.👌

[@North_Nate]

Love these videos

[@lukerogers5152]

Bro this journalist one of my fav on vice and he always looks high asf yet still be making some good ass documentary’s 🤣🤣🤣

[@fettywap1738]

Great video. Not enough coverage on this - just the actual events and some history rather than the usual media points of talking only about a present flare up/issue without giving historical context

[@scottgibson5950]

The production values on this documentary are top notch 10/10. Great piece of journalism, this is the kind of Vice content we all want 👏

[@kbengson9163]

Can't say the same for the guy making the Iranian film.hahaha

[@abololo..lololo]

@@kbengson9163 Iran has been building atoms for a long time😆We wave our hands at the UFO every day. You are still looking for the atom🤦‍♂️🛸🛸🛸RQ 170 was a joke for Iran and gave the world a code🇮🇷🇮🇷In the future, we will deliver a world without borders. The same thing that Cyrus the Great did, the world is at peace

[@chrisyuri4187]

agree bro, 10/10

[@williamtobin7282]

The guy makin the iranian film probably only had a 43.00 budget 🤣

[@SnailHatan]

I don’t think you know what production value is. Anyone with a half-decent camera and money to travel can do this. Nothing exceptional about the production value at all.

[@ferhatmagsodoglu4096]

Vice the best we need you for all real news not fake news made by west or est or north or south we need the real like this Thanks for showing us the beautiful face of Iran 🇮🇷 ❤ Great job IRGC ❤ great job Iraqi army’s 🇮🇶 🇮🇷

[@wadedavies3924]

Fascinating that vice refused to translate the Response to the question at minute 17.

[@Dangus35]

"That they left me alone on Earth" damn, brutal.

[@murica7095]

That was quite the mood

[@BaybieK]

The US calling Iran's actions in the Middle East "imperialism" is like the kettle calling a pot black.

[@yakov5107]

we all prefer us imperialism than Iran’s

[@vantaluxxx]

@@yakov5107 pretty sure the many victims of US imperialism across the world don’t lol

[@SamiiRSMT]

Said no one ever

[@FlankerJackChannel]

But it's not even that. It's Sunni Arabs against Aryan Shia.

[@FlankerJackChannel]

@@yakov5107 Huh?

[@sunset9530]

Vice back to its old presentation good to see this wow

[@andretempler]

This is one of the globally most important things you've created vice..

[@triniboy775]

You know all things considered, Tehran looks pretty nice.

[@Soul-Clutch-Man]

I was thinking the same thing

[@ehsanhasannia5793]

Not from inside

[@TheChowster]

Unless you’re a women or gay

[@aresjerry]

@@superkoopatrooper4879 lol your own people did that quit looking for scapegoats

[@deepsmoke]

from above maybe.from inside nope

[@waleedb3191]

24:24 If the CIA didn't interfere in 1956, none of this would be happening today.

[@mahdiadib9295]

@Happi ah yes destroy country, install puppet regime, puppet regime tortures people, people become frustrated and become radicalized, blame Islam. youre the embodiment of soyjack

[@civilengineer3349]

@Happi the Roman Persian wars happened before Islam and they too were deadly and devastating especially when considering the population of those lands back then

[@chickenboi693]

@Happi they were never this way until the ottoman collapse after WWI and the western powers drawing borders and playing with the whole region.

[@chickenboi693]

@Happi If the western powers never entered the middle east, none of this would have happened 🤡

[@mahdiadib9295]

@Happi when Christians were too busy burning each other on stakes for scientific discovery's, Muslims conquered half the world and brought forward one of the greatest scientific ages (islamic golden age) but ofcourse yyou seem like that guy that knows nothing about history and just like to blame everything on a religion you dont understand

[@HegelsOwl]

One of Vice's best productions.

[@milanmadhani323]

I cant believe reporting like this is free. Amazing.

[@ImperialPimp]

Has anyone thought about the fact that Iran is actually IN the Middle East ??

[@ghghjkkk2382]

@@user-pi4su6je8p ohhhh lmfao I was being such a dumbass 😭

[@inhalejemkem2534]

and the US was in North America while the Nazis were in Europe invading every country in its path and forcing their ways onto their citizens. Should the US have done nothing?

[@ghghjkkk2382]

@@inhalejemkem2534 Iran isn’t an extremist regime with a caste system though. Iran is basically just Russia of the ME.

[@robertkok3725]

Dude🤫🤐 its actually next to kebabul and falafelujah everybody know that

[@robertkok3725]

@@inhalejemkem2534 nope Just stay home joe

[@coleminor2119]

Damn, this is the type of content I that drew me to Vice years ago. It’s waned the last few years but this reminds me of early Vice documentaries

[@julier5352]

Exactly!

[@ameyas7726]

Most of Vice nowadays is just MSM, one sided, PC propaganda...sad!

[@busterbeagle2167]

Biased liberal propaganda?

[@sinabagherisarvestani8924]

well this totally sucks , both Iran the the US and the Iraqi and Arab Shia militia groups and others in the region should work together rather than work against each other , Biden should work on improving relations with Iran , I think good relations between Iran and the US would be a good thing . There is a lot of areas where Iran and the US can cooperate , Iran is one of the biggest Muslim majority countries in the world while the US has one of the largest Muslim populations in North America , so there is a lot the countries have in common and they should deescalate

[@tm-te9mh]

@@ameyas7726 not true at all , lol nothing has changed just the topic.

[@tommyhaimakainen5488]

These videos are just mind boggling

[@julianroybal4843]

It's been 7 years and still I haven't seen any War