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One of the inspectors is Eric Peterson (Hugh Laurie). When the Iranians who escorted him and the other inspectors in are distracted by a phone call, Peterson tries to install a camera in a fire alarm box. However, he drops the device, and one of his fellow inspectors sees him pick it up. The team then gets word about the death of General Mohammadi (Vassilis Koukalani) and are told to leave. We find out, though, that Peterson has another mission in mind, and vows to a woman that comes to his hotel room that he has to go back to that nuclear plant.
We then see Mossad agent Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan), embedded in Tehran in a failed attempt to hack into the Iranian government’s nuclear operations, watching a car on fire on the roof of a parking garage. She goes to street level and runs, and the agent that’s going after her isn’t reporting into the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IGRC), but to Mossad. But Tamar manages to kill him and escape.
In the meantime, IGRC captain Faraz Kamali (Shaun Toub) deals with the investigation into Mohammadi’s assassination, when an underling comes to him looking for resources to help him investigate the death of therapist Marjan Montazeri (Glenn Close). What the underling doesn’t know is that Faraz is covering up the fact that his wife Nahid (Shila Ommi) killed Marjan.
Tamar manages to find a women’s shelter to hide out, but through a gaming app, she texts a Mossad mole to find out what she can do to stop being their target, especially since an assassin named the Owl has been sent to find her. Leverage is the answer, says the mole; get information from Marjan’s laptop that she can use to keep her alive. When she finally breaks into Marjan’s laptop with a dongle she found in a hidden safe, she finds out about a hidden weapons delivery.
Peterson is determined to find evidence that the Iranians are in breach of the weapons treaty, but his team is barred from even going back to the nuclear facility by Faraz, due to the protests after Mohammadi’s death.
One of the things that has changed since Tehran‘s first season in 2020 is the addition of big American and British stars. Close joined in Season 2 back in 2022, and with her character’s death, Laurie has now joined the cast. It’s likely an attempt by the producers and Apple to connect the show to a wider audience, given that most of the first season was in Farsi and Hebrew.
We’re not really all that sure what they add to the story, though, given what’s at the core of the series. Tamar has always been conflicted as a Persian Jew, infiltrating her hometown but also dealing with family members on both sides of the Israel-Iran divide. And Faraz is more about making sure he has the political capital to do what he needs to do instead of being automatically loyal to the Ayatollah and the government.
Sure, most of the action we see in any given episode is standard-grade spy stuff: chases, fights, gunfire, etc. The producers do a good job of having Athens stand in for Tehran, so the show is a visual treat. But the shadings of what Tamar and Faraz go through are at the heart of Tehran.
So, unless Peterson, the inspector played by Laurie, crosses paths with Tamar at some point and they join forces in trying to prove that Iran is making nuclear weapons, his story seems like an unnecessarily parallel one. We’ll hold judgement on that because that may ultimately happen. But it may also just be two stories on different tracks that never meet, and that feels like a distraction more than an asset.
