Five days after an ICE agent fatally shot activist Renee Good, @frontline & @ProPublica filmed as tensions ran high in the Minneapolis neighborhood where Good had been killed. A protester threw a snowball. Federal agents responded with tear gas, pepper balls and pepper spray, hitting members of the reporting team in the face. "We see just use of excessive force after use of excess force," said a former DOJ official who looked at the team's footage.

This video is drawn from FRONTLINE and ProPublica's documentary "Caught in the Crackdown," which is available to stream in full:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbPBVFRJQmk

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Five days after an ICE agent fatally shot activist Renee Good, @frontline & @ProPublica filmed as tensions ran high in the Minneapolis neighborhood where Good had been killed. A protester threw a snowball. Federal agents responded with tear gas, pepper balls and pepper spray, hitting members of the reporting team in the face. "We see just use of excessive force after use of excess force," said a former DOJ official who looked at the team's footage.

This video is drawn from FRONTLINE and ProPublica's documentary "Caught in the Crackdown," which is available to stream in full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbPBVFRJQmk

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After Renee Good’s Killing, a Snowball, and Then Tear Gas | FRONTLINE + @ProPublica

FRONTLINE PBS | Official April 15, 2026 3:30 pm

FRONTLINE and ProPublica trace the Trump administration’s federal immigration sweeps in major cities across the country — and the violence, protests and arrests stemming from them. 

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How did the operations by masked and heavily armed federal agents, sometimes backed by the U.S. military, unfold in major cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis? And how did protesters and bystanders who are U.S. citizens get caught up in the crackdown? Those questions are at the center of this documentary collaboration from FRONTLINE and ProPublica. 

The Trump administration said its immigration crackdown was protecting U.S. citizens by targeting criminals and people who had entered the country illegally. “Caught in the Crackdown” traces how what began as immigration enforcement operations also became something different — with the government arresting hundreds of U.S. citizens who were protesting or observing the raids, and routinely portraying those citizens as domestic terrorists or extremists.

But despite the rhetoric, the reality behind those arrests has often been quite different, ProPublica and FRONTLINE found: “When we analyzed more than 300 of these arrests, we found that while there have been successful prosecutions, over and over, cases have been falling apart, contradicted by video evidence and witness testimony,” says correspondent A.C. Thompson.

Video footage and witness testimony also contradicted official accounts of the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two protesters in Minneapolis, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, at the hands of ICE agents. 

It also traces the role of one of the key players in the operations, Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, who defended the aggressive tactics and arrests and called them “exemplary.” After Pretti’s killing, Bovino was moved out of his role and has since retired, with the Trump administration saying it “recognized that certain improvements could and should be made” to its immigration enforcement operations.

“Caught in the Crackdown” is a FRONTLINE production with Schonder Productions in association with ProPublica. The correspondent, producer and writer is A.C. Thompson. The producer, writer and director is Gabrielle Schonder. The senior editor is Frank Koughan. The managing editor of FRONTLINE is Andrew Metz. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath. 

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FRONTLINE and ProPublica trace the Trump administration’s federal immigration sweeps in major cities across the country — and the violence, protests and arrests stemming from them.

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How did the operations by masked and heavily armed federal agents, sometimes backed by the U.S. military, unfold in major cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis? And how did protesters and bystanders who are U.S. citizens get caught up in the crackdown? Those questions are at the center of this documentary collaboration from FRONTLINE and ProPublica.

The Trump administration said its immigration crackdown was protecting U.S. citizens by targeting criminals and people who had entered the country illegally. “Caught in the Crackdown” traces how what began as immigration enforcement operations also became something different — with the government arresting hundreds of U.S. citizens who were protesting or observing the raids, and routinely portraying those citizens as domestic terrorists or extremists.

But despite the rhetoric, the reality behind those arrests has often been quite different, ProPublica and FRONTLINE found: “When we analyzed more than 300 of these arrests, we found that while there have been successful prosecutions, over and over, cases have been falling apart, contradicted by video evidence and witness testimony,” says correspondent A.C. Thompson.

Video footage and witness testimony also contradicted official accounts of the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two protesters in Minneapolis, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, at the hands of ICE agents.

It also traces the role of one of the key players in the operations, Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, who defended the aggressive tactics and arrests and called them “exemplary.” After Pretti’s killing, Bovino was moved out of his role and has since retired, with the Trump administration saying it “recognized that certain improvements could and should be made” to its immigration enforcement operations.

“Caught in the Crackdown” is a FRONTLINE production with Schonder Productions in association with ProPublica. The correspondent, producer and writer is A.C. Thompson. The producer, writer and director is Gabrielle Schonder. The senior editor is Frank Koughan. The managing editor of FRONTLINE is Andrew Metz. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.

Explore additional reporting on “Caught in the Crackdown” on our website:
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Protesters, Bystanders Arrested | Caught in the Crackdown (documentary) | FRONTLINE + ProPublica

FRONTLINE PBS | Official April 15, 2026 2:00 am

What was behind Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s deal with President Donald Trump to imprison deportees from the U.S. at CECOT? FRONTLINE and El Faro investigate. 

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Three months into President Donald Trump’s second term, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador opened the doors of his country’s notorious prison, CECOT, for deportees the Trump administration had swept up and accused of being gang members. Despite revelations that most of the men had no criminal convictions in the U.S. or proven gang affiliations, as well as concerns about harsh treatment, both presidents touted the move as a win.

In “The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador,” FRONTLINE and reporters from the El Salvador news outlet El Faro investigate what was behind the controversial deal, and what each leader stood to gain. 

Through interviews with current and former U.S. officials, reporters and insiders, the documentary shines new light on Bukele’s tangled history with the gangs the U.S. is fighting, why Bukele offered to imprison U.S. deportees, and who he asked be returned to El Salvador from U.S. custody in exchange, in what one reporter calls “a deal within a deal.”

“The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador” is a FRONTLINE Production with Deal 2025 LLC in association with El Faro. The reporters are Carlos Martínez and Óscar Martínez. The co-producers are Pedro Álvarez Gales and Katherine Griwert. The writers are Jeff Arak & Juan Ravell. The producer is Jeff Arak. The director is Juan Ravell. The senior producers are Frank Koughan and Eamonn Matthews. The managing editor of FRONTLINE is Andrew Metz. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath. 

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Prologue
03:03 - Nayib Bukele’s Rise From Mayor to President
09:07 - MS-13, Bukele’s Territorial Control Plan & the U.S. Task Force Vulcan 
14:25 - The Bukele Government’s Dealings With El Salvador’s Gangs
24:08 - The Fight Over U.S. Attempts to Extradite MS-13 Gang Leaders
31:31 - El Salvador’s “State of Exception” Emergency Measures and CECOT
41:20 - How Bukele and Trump’s Deal to Imprison U.S. Deportees at CECOT Was Made
48:42 - Salvadoran Journalists for El Faro Living and Reporting in Exile
51:49 - Credits

What was behind Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s deal with President Donald Trump to imprison deportees from the U.S. at CECOT? FRONTLINE and El Faro investigate.

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Three months into President Donald Trump’s second term, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador opened the doors of his country’s notorious prison, CECOT, for deportees the Trump administration had swept up and accused of being gang members. Despite revelations that most of the men had no criminal convictions in the U.S. or proven gang affiliations, as well as concerns about harsh treatment, both presidents touted the move as a win.

In “The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador,” FRONTLINE and reporters from the El Salvador news outlet El Faro investigate what was behind the controversial deal, and what each leader stood to gain.

Through interviews with current and former U.S. officials, reporters and insiders, the documentary shines new light on Bukele’s tangled history with the gangs the U.S. is fighting, why Bukele offered to imprison U.S. deportees, and who he asked be returned to El Salvador from U.S. custody in exchange, in what one reporter calls “a deal within a deal.”

“The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador” is a FRONTLINE Production with Deal 2025 LLC in association with El Faro. The reporters are Carlos Martínez and Óscar Martínez. The co-producers are Pedro Álvarez Gales and Katherine Griwert. The writers are Jeff Arak & Juan Ravell. The producer is Jeff Arak. The director is Juan Ravell. The senior producers are Frank Koughan and Eamonn Matthews. The managing editor of FRONTLINE is Andrew Metz. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.

Explore additional reporting on “The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador” on our website:
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#Documentary #ElSalvador #UnitedStates #CECOT

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Support for "The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador" is provided by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Prologue
03:03 - Nayib Bukele’s Rise From Mayor to President
09:07 - MS-13, Bukele’s Territorial Control Plan & the U.S. Task Force Vulcan
14:25 - The Bukele Government’s Dealings With El Salvador’s Gangs
24:08 - The Fight Over U.S. Attempts to Extradite MS-13 Gang Leaders
31:31 - El Salvador’s “State of Exception” Emergency Measures and CECOT
41:20 - How Bukele and Trump’s Deal to Imprison U.S. Deportees at CECOT Was Made
48:42 - Salvadoran Journalists for El Faro Living and Reporting in Exile
51:49 - Credits

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The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador (full documentary) | FRONTLINE (PBS) + El Faro

FRONTLINE PBS | Official April 8, 2026 2:00 am

Three months after President Donald Trump returned to office in 2025 and began his major immigration crackdown, he held a White House sit-down with a popular Latin American leader who had once called himself the world’s coolest dictator. Watch the opening scene of “The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador,” a new documentary from FRONTLINE and El Faro. 

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As the documentary explores, Bukele opened the doors of the notorious Salvadoran prison known as CECOT to planeloads of mostly Venezuelan U.S. deportees that the Trump administration had swept up and accused of being gang members. Later reporting would reveal that most of the men had no criminal convictions in the U.S. or proven gang affiliations.

“It was pretty obvious what Trump was getting out of this deal,” T. Christian Miller of ProPublica says in the opening scene. “It was much less obvious what Bukele was doing.”

That lack of transparency was familiar to Carlos Martínez and Óscar Martínez, reporters at the El Salvador investigative news outlet El Faro who have covered Bukele and his administration for years.

“The nature of Bukele’s government is to keep things secret,” Carlos says in the opening scene. 

FRONTLINE and El Faro’s documentary, releasing April 7, pierces that veil to investigate what underpinned Bukele’s controversial CECOT deal with the Trump administration. The film chronicles how the brothers and their colleagues discovered evidence that ran counter to Bukele’s tough-on-gangs image: Bukele’s government had previously negotiated with MS-13 and other violent gangs it publicly claimed to be cracking down on, El Faro found. Those negotiations, documents showed, involved offering privileges to gang leaders in prison, in exchange for a reduction in homicides and voter support in territories the gangs controlled.

Following the revelations, Bukele, who had vowed to end government corruption and crush gangs, claimed “El Faro lied” and said the documents showing his administration’s dealings with gang leaders were “fake.” The Martínez brothers now live — and report — in exile.

Through the brothers’ story, as well as the perspectives of other reporters, former U.S. officials and insiders, “The Deal” shines new light on Bukele’s tangled history with the gangs the U.S. is fighting. The documentary examines why Bukele offered to imprison U.S. deportees in CECOT — and why, in exchange, he asked for a number of gang leaders in U.S. custody to be returned to El Salvador, in what one reporter in the documentary calls “a deal within a deal.”

Bukele has said the Trump administration's return of MS-13 members will help El Salvador "finalize intelligence gathering and go after the last remnants" of the gang. But some observers suspect he had another motive: preventing gang leaders in U.S. custody from exposing the details of their past dealings with Bukele’s administration. 

For the full story, watch “The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador.”

Explore additional reporting on “The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador” on our website:
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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with major support from Ford Foundation, and The Fialkow Family Foundation, as part of the Plum Bush Foundation. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Trust, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and Corey David Sauer, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. Support for “The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador” is provided by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation.

Three months after President Donald Trump returned to office in 2025 and began his major immigration crackdown, he held a White House sit-down with a popular Latin American leader who had once called himself the world’s coolest dictator. Watch the opening scene of “The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador,” a new documentary from FRONTLINE and El Faro.

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As the documentary explores, Bukele opened the doors of the notorious Salvadoran prison known as CECOT to planeloads of mostly Venezuelan U.S. deportees that the Trump administration had swept up and accused of being gang members. Later reporting would reveal that most of the men had no criminal convictions in the U.S. or proven gang affiliations.

“It was pretty obvious what Trump was getting out of this deal,” T. Christian Miller of ProPublica says in the opening scene. “It was much less obvious what Bukele was doing.”

That lack of transparency was familiar to Carlos Martínez and Óscar Martínez, reporters at the El Salvador investigative news outlet El Faro who have covered Bukele and his administration for years.

“The nature of Bukele’s government is to keep things secret,” Carlos says in the opening scene.

FRONTLINE and El Faro’s documentary, releasing April 7, pierces that veil to investigate what underpinned Bukele’s controversial CECOT deal with the Trump administration. The film chronicles how the brothers and their colleagues discovered evidence that ran counter to Bukele’s tough-on-gangs image: Bukele’s government had previously negotiated with MS-13 and other violent gangs it publicly claimed to be cracking down on, El Faro found. Those negotiations, documents showed, involved offering privileges to gang leaders in prison, in exchange for a reduction in homicides and voter support in territories the gangs controlled.

Following the revelations, Bukele, who had vowed to end government corruption and crush gangs, claimed “El Faro lied” and said the documents showing his administration’s dealings with gang leaders were “fake.” The Martínez brothers now live — and report — in exile.

Through the brothers’ story, as well as the perspectives of other reporters, former U.S. officials and insiders, “The Deal” shines new light on Bukele’s tangled history with the gangs the U.S. is fighting. The documentary examines why Bukele offered to imprison U.S. deportees in CECOT — and why, in exchange, he asked for a number of gang leaders in U.S. custody to be returned to El Salvador, in what one reporter in the documentary calls “a deal within a deal.”

Bukele has said the Trump administration's return of MS-13 members will help El Salvador "finalize intelligence gathering and go after the last remnants" of the gang. But some observers suspect he had another motive: preventing gang leaders in U.S. custody from exposing the details of their past dealings with Bukele’s administration.

For the full story, watch “The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador.”

Explore additional reporting on “The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador” on our website:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-deal-trump-bukele-gangs-el-salvador/

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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with major support from Ford Foundation, and The Fialkow Family Foundation, as part of the Plum Bush Foundation. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Trust, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and Corey David Sauer, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. Support for “The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador” is provided by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation.

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Investigating Bukele and Trump’s Controversial CECOT Deal | FRONTLINE (PBS) + @elfaro

FRONTLINE PBS | Official April 7, 2026 8:16 pm

Rafael Grossi has served as the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, since 2019. Prior to that, Grossi held various positions related to nuclear safety and the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. A veteran diplomat, he was also Argentina’s ambassador to Austria and the Argentine Representative to the IAEA and other international organizations. 

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Grossi spoke to FRONTLINE’s Sebastian Walker on March 18 for our 2026 update of the documentary, “Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question.” This interview has been edited for length and clarity. See a more complete description of our process here: https://to.pbs.org/4lVZKzA

This interview is being published as part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, an effort to open up the source material behind our documentaries. Read more about this project here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/about-frontlines-transparency-project/

“Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question” is available to watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td5Iph8BFgE

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The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.

Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with major support from Ford Foundation, and The Fialkow Family Foundation, as part of the Plum Bush Foundation. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Trust, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and Corey David Sauer, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.

Rafael Grossi has served as the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, since 2019. Prior to that, Grossi held various positions related to nuclear safety and the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. A veteran diplomat, he was also Argentina’s ambassador to Austria and the Argentine Representative to the IAEA and other international organizations.

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Grossi spoke to FRONTLINE’s Sebastian Walker on March 18 for our 2026 update of the documentary, “Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question.” This interview has been edited for length and clarity. See a more complete description of our process here: https://to.pbs.org/4lVZKzA

This interview is being published as part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, an effort to open up the source material behind our documentaries. Read more about this project here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/about-frontlines-transparency-project/

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An investigation into the status of Iran’s nuclear program amid the second round of U.S.-Israeli military action in less than a year. (March 2026 update)

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In the weeks since the U.S. and Israel began bombarding Iran, President Trump has repeatedly justified the strikes by claiming Iran had posed an imminent nuclear threat. But nine months earlier, in the wake of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran in June 2025, the message coming from Washington was that Iran’s key nuclear facilities had been “obliterated.”

Drawing on new reporting, satellite imagery analysis and interviews, this investigation is an updated presentation of our December 2025 documentary by the same name.

In September of last year, directors Adam Desiderio and Sebastian Walker, who is also the film’s correspondent, visited sites hit in the June 2025 U.S.-Israeli strikes and sat down with one of Iran’s most powerful officials, Ali Larijani — in what turned out to be the last on-camera interview he gave to an American news outlet before his assassination earlier this month in an Israeli airstrike. 

Since the current war began, the team has been talking to experts and officials and analyzing satellite imagery with The Washington Post, Bellingcat and Evident Media to try to understand the truth about what remains of Iran’s nuclear program.

Their findings offer valuable insights into a continuing conflict that has rippled across the Middle East, killing thousands — including children at an elementary school — and displacing millions.

“Strike on Iran” is a FRONTLINE production with Mongoose Pictures in association with The ‪@WashingtonPost‬ ‪@evidentmedia‬ and ‪@bellingcatofficial‬. It is written, produced and directed by Adam Desiderio and Sebastian Walker. The correspondent is Sebastian Walker. The reporters are Nilo Tabrizy, Jarrett Ley, Souad Mekhennet, Trevor Ball, Carlos Gonzales and Sebastian Vandermeersch. The senior producers are Dan Edge and Eamonn Matthews. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.

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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS.

The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.

Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with major support from Ford Foundation, and The Fialkow Family Foundation, as part of the Plum Bush Foundation. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Trust, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and Corey David Sauer, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.

00:00 - Prologue 
02:50 - The Aftermath of June 2025 Israeli Airstrikes Targeting Iranian Scientists
14:48 - Investigating How Israeli Strikes Against Iranian Scientists Were Carried Out
19:50 - Iranian Nuclear Facilities Bombed by the U.S. & Israel in 2025
29:05 - What Ali Larijani, Iran’s Slain Top Security Chief, Said About Iran’s Nuclear Program in 2025
33:21 - The International Atomic Energy Agency’s 2025 Assessment of Damage to Iran’s Nuclear Facilities
49:00 - Examining the 2026 U.S.-Israel War With Iran  
51:58 - Credits

An investigation into the status of Iran’s nuclear program amid the second round of U.S.-Israeli military action in less than a year. (March 2026 update)

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In the weeks since the U.S. and Israel began bombarding Iran, President Trump has repeatedly justified the strikes by claiming Iran had posed an imminent nuclear threat. But nine months earlier, in the wake of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran in June 2025, the message coming from Washington was that Iran’s key nuclear facilities had been “obliterated.”

Drawing on new reporting, satellite imagery analysis and interviews, this investigation is an updated presentation of our December 2025 documentary by the same name.

In September of last year, directors Adam Desiderio and Sebastian Walker, who is also the film’s correspondent, visited sites hit in the June 2025 U.S.-Israeli strikes and sat down with one of Iran’s most powerful officials, Ali Larijani — in what turned out to be the last on-camera interview he gave to an American news outlet before his assassination earlier this month in an Israeli airstrike.

Since the current war began, the team has been talking to experts and officials and analyzing satellite imagery with The Washington Post, Bellingcat and Evident Media to try to understand the truth about what remains of Iran’s nuclear program.

Their findings offer valuable insights into a continuing conflict that has rippled across the Middle East, killing thousands — including children at an elementary school — and displacing millions.

“Strike on Iran” is a FRONTLINE production with Mongoose Pictures in association with The ‪@WashingtonPost‬ ‪@evidentmedia‬ and ‪@bellingcatofficial‬. It is written, produced and directed by Adam Desiderio and Sebastian Walker. The correspondent is Sebastian Walker. The reporters are Nilo Tabrizy, Jarrett Ley, Souad Mekhennet, Trevor Ball, Carlos Gonzales and Sebastian Vandermeersch. The senior producers are Dan Edge and Eamonn Matthews. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.

Explore additional reporting on “Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question” on our website: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/strike-on-iran-the-nuclear-question/

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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS.

The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.

Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with major support from Ford Foundation, and The Fialkow Family Foundation, as part of the Plum Bush Foundation. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Trust, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and Corey David Sauer, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.

00:00 - Prologue
02:50 - The Aftermath of June 2025 Israeli Airstrikes Targeting Iranian Scientists
14:48 - Investigating How Israeli Strikes Against Iranian Scientists Were Carried Out
19:50 - Iranian Nuclear Facilities Bombed by the U.S. & Israel in 2025
29:05 - What Ali Larijani, Iran’s Slain Top Security Chief, Said About Iran’s Nuclear Program in 2025
33:21 - The International Atomic Energy Agency’s 2025 Assessment of Damage to Iran’s Nuclear Facilities
49:00 - Examining the 2026 U.S.-Israel War With Iran
51:58 - Credits

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Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question (updated documentary) | FRONTLINE (PBS)

FRONTLINE PBS | Official April 1, 2026 2:00 am

Watch the prologue from tonight’s update of “Strike on Iran”

FRONTLINE PBS | Official March 31, 2026 10:00 pm

Inside a counterterrorism police unit in Karachi, Pakistan, dedicated to tracking down suspected members of the Pakistani Taliban. (Aired 2015)

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In the nearly five years since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, there’s been a dramatic increase in attacks within neighboring Pakistan by the militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, commonly called the Pakistani Taliban or TTP. Pakistan has accused Taliban-controlled Afghanistan of harboring the group and enabling it to launch cross-border attacks, which the Afghan government denies — and in recent weeks, the fight between the two countries escalated into what Pakistan’s government called “open war.”

Against this volatile backdrop, FRONTLINE’s 2015 documentary “Taliban Hunters” offers relevant history on TTP and Pakistani security forces’ fight against it. This short documentary went inside a Karachi-based counterterrorism police unit dedicated to tracking down Taliban suspects. 

As the documentary reported, TTP first emerged in 2007 and used to have only a small, underground presence in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city. But by the time the documentary aired, the group had been gaining ground in the city of over 20 million people, and carrying out suicide bombings and targeted assassinations there.

The film documented how the unit carried out raids to take suspected TTP members into custody. It also explored human rights groups’ allegations that Karachi authorities were abusing militants captured in the city’s fight against terrorism. Amid TTP’s current resurgence, “Taliban Hunters” is an illuminating snapshot of where the fight against them stood in one large city back in 2015, and how the group operated.

“Taliban Hunters” is directed and reported by Mobeen Azhar and produced by Jamie Doran. The senior producer for FRONTLINE is Dan Edge. 

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CHAPTERS:

00:32 - Following a Pakistani Police Unit’s Raid on Taliban Suspects 
07:03 - The Emergence of the Pakistani Taliban aka TTP
11:05 - Interviews With Two Taliban Suspects Detained by Pakistani Police 
14:13 - Examining Allegations of Human Rights Abuses Against Detained Taliban Suspects 
17:28 - Credits

Inside a counterterrorism police unit in Karachi, Pakistan, dedicated to tracking down suspected members of the Pakistani Taliban. (Aired 2015)

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In the nearly five years since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, there’s been a dramatic increase in attacks within neighboring Pakistan by the militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, commonly called the Pakistani Taliban or TTP. Pakistan has accused Taliban-controlled Afghanistan of harboring the group and enabling it to launch cross-border attacks, which the Afghan government denies — and in recent weeks, the fight between the two countries escalated into what Pakistan’s government called “open war.”

Against this volatile backdrop, FRONTLINE’s 2015 documentary “Taliban Hunters” offers relevant history on TTP and Pakistani security forces’ fight against it. This short documentary went inside a Karachi-based counterterrorism police unit dedicated to tracking down Taliban suspects.

As the documentary reported, TTP first emerged in 2007 and used to have only a small, underground presence in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city. But by the time the documentary aired, the group had been gaining ground in the city of over 20 million people, and carrying out suicide bombings and targeted assassinations there.

The film documented how the unit carried out raids to take suspected TTP members into custody. It also explored human rights groups’ allegations that Karachi authorities were abusing militants captured in the city’s fight against terrorism. Amid TTP’s current resurgence, “Taliban Hunters” is an illuminating snapshot of where the fight against them stood in one large city back in 2015, and how the group operated.

“Taliban Hunters” is directed and reported by Mobeen Azhar and produced by Jamie Doran. The senior producer for FRONTLINE is Dan Edge.

Explore additional reporting on “Taliban Hunters” on our website:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/taliban-hunters/

#Documentary #Pakistan #Taliban

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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS.

The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.

Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with major support from Ford Foundation, and The Fialkow Family Foundation, as part of the Plum Bush Foundation. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Trust, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and Corey David Sauer, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.

CHAPTERS:

00:32 - Following a Pakistani Police Unit’s Raid on Taliban Suspects
07:03 - The Emergence of the Pakistani Taliban aka TTP
11:05 - Interviews With Two Taliban Suspects Detained by Pakistani Police
14:13 - Examining Allegations of Human Rights Abuses Against Detained Taliban Suspects
17:28 - Credits

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Tracking Suspected Members of the Pakistani Taliban | Taliban Hunters (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

FRONTLINE PBS | Official March 24, 2026 9:00 pm

Ali Larijani was secretary of the Supreme National Security Council in charge of Iran’s nuclear negotiations at the time that this 2025 interview was conducted. Iran confirmed he was killed in an Israeli airstrike in March 2026.

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In a wide-ranging conversation in Tehran, Larijani said Iran had pursued every option to resolve the conflict with the U.S. in a peaceful way and warned President Donald Trump against new attacks, saying there was no chance Iran would surrender. It was Larijani’s first interview with foreign media after he was appointed to his role by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following the 12-day war with the U.S. and Israel in June 2025.

Larijani was once a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a powerful Iranian paramilitary force, and served as parliament speaker from 2008 to 2020. In the months preceding the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran in February 2026, Larijani was reportedly in charge of the deadly crackdown on Iranian protesters and tasked with shoring up the Islamic Republic’s existence in case of war.

Larijani spoke through an interpreter with FRONTLINE’s Sebastian Walker on Sept. 22, 2025, for our 2025 documentary, "Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question." This was Larijani's last on-camera interview with an American news outlet before he was killed. See a more complete description of our process here: https://to.pbs.org/4lVZKzA

This interview is being published as part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, an effort to open up the source material behind our documentaries. Read more about this project here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/about-frontlines-transparency-project/

"Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question" is available to watch here: https://youtu.be/xxBYkhDDfDE

Explore more of our extended interviews in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_pPc6-qR9ZzEepVsKZsT58XiLb38Tttr

#Iran #AliLarijani #Interview  

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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS.

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Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with major support from Ford Foundation. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Trust, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.

Ali Larijani was secretary of the Supreme National Security Council in charge of Iran’s nuclear negotiations at the time that this 2025 interview was conducted. Iran confirmed he was killed in an Israeli airstrike in March 2026.

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In a wide-ranging conversation in Tehran, Larijani said Iran had pursued every option to resolve the conflict with the U.S. in a peaceful way and warned President Donald Trump against new attacks, saying there was no chance Iran would surrender. It was Larijani’s first interview with foreign media after he was appointed to his role by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following the 12-day war with the U.S. and Israel in June 2025.

Larijani was once a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a powerful Iranian paramilitary force, and served as parliament speaker from 2008 to 2020. In the months preceding the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran in February 2026, Larijani was reportedly in charge of the deadly crackdown on Iranian protesters and tasked with shoring up the Islamic Republic’s existence in case of war.

Larijani spoke through an interpreter with FRONTLINE’s Sebastian Walker on Sept. 22, 2025, for our 2025 documentary, "Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question." This was Larijani's last on-camera interview with an American news outlet before he was killed. See a more complete description of our process here: https://to.pbs.org/4lVZKzA

This interview is being published as part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, an effort to open up the source material behind our documentaries. Read more about this project here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/about-frontlines-transparency-project/

"Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question" is available to watch here: https://youtu.be/xxBYkhDDfDE

Explore more of our extended interviews in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_pPc6-qR9ZzEepVsKZsT58XiLb38Tttr

#Iran #AliLarijani #Interview

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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS.

The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.

Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with major support from Ford Foundation. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Trust, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.

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What Iran’s top security official said about June 2025 U.S. and Israeli strikes

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