HOSTAGES IN LEBANON, A COVERT STORY

In a few weeks, or even days, Iran is likely to announce that it has the atomic bomb. The secret history of Iran's nuclear project dates back to the 1970s, with its main bias being hostage-taking.

In the name of Iran's war of influence, and its absolute quest for the atom, Americans, French, Germans and British were kidnapped. Locked up for years, they endured a truly horrifying ordeal in dreadful conditions of detention.

This was all part of a clever underground strategy masterminded by the Iranian mullahs and Lebanese militias. This secret plan mobilized all the Western secret services in a Beirut that had become a nest of spies amid the fracas of a fratricidal war. This story is at the heart of contemporary and future geopolitics, without anyone knowing anything about it. How did the Iranians use kidnapping to get what they wanted during negotiations?

With the stories of each hostage, the forces of law and order, archives and evocations, the series will recount the details and implications of four hostage-takings of different nationalities, with the same sponsor in common: Iran.