The second part of the documentary "The Long War" - which was broadcast by Al-Jazeera on Friday evening - reviews the main stations of the tense relationship between Iran, the United States of America and its ally in the region, Israel.

It begins by presenting the tension between the two sides of the conflict (Washington and Tehran) from the strategy that former US President George H.W. The solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was the peace conference in Madrid.

However, the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was excluded by the Bush senior administration from the invitation to the Madrid Conference, its new leaders - who assumed power after the death of Imam Khomeini in 1989 - did not accept the new settlement projects for the Palestinian cause.

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei held his conference to support the Palestinian people, and that was two weeks before the Madrid conference.

The participants in the conference, including revolutionaries, nationalists, and Islamists, unanimously agreed on their rejection of American hegemony over the Middle East, their rejection of the occupation of Palestine, and their rejection of the State of Israel.

"We believe that Palestine can only be liberated through resistance and that settlement will not liberate Palestine," says Naim Al-Qassem, Deputy Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah - in his testimony for the documentary film entitled: Dialogue or War? - affirming their support for the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Islamic Jihad because they are They stick to fighting and resistance against Israel.

The conference held by Khamenei to support Palestine was the beginning of the formation of close ties between Hezbollah and the Hamas and Jihad movements, which led to the emergence of what Tehran would later call the "axis of resistance", which soon became a target for America and Israel.

On February 16, 1992, the Israeli army assassinated the Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Sheikh Abbas al-Musawi, who participated in the Tehran conference.

On March 17, 1992, a car bomb exploded in front of the Israeli embassy in Argentina, killing 28 people and wounding 250, and the Islamic Jihad movement claimed responsibility for the attack, which Israel considered a response to the assassination of Mousawi.

The signing of the nuclear agreement and the US withdrawal from it

Tensions between Tel Aviv and Tehran increased against the background of Israeli intelligence talking about the Iranians planning to develop nuclear weapons, which is confirmed by Moshe Boje Ya’alon, a former Israeli chief of staff and defense minister, who said that Israel was the first to discover in the 1990s that Iran was planning to develop nuclear weapons.

Faced with the possibility of Iran developing its nuclear bomb, Israel resorted - in order to protect itself - to an understanding with the Palestinians, which was the Oslo agreement that was signed at the White House in Washington on September 13, 1993.

According to Seyyed Hossein Mousavian, Iran's ambassador to Germany (1990-1997), Tehran was totally opposed to the peace process because it was convinced that Israel would not recognize the rights of the Palestinians.

In return for Iran's continued support for Islamic movements, especially Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Washington imposed economic sanctions on it, as a prelude to isolating it and eliminating its threat.

The documentary "Dialogue or War?"

How did events unfold in the Washington-Tehran relationship, and how the United States needed Iran's role in its war on Afghanistan, before former President George W. Bush destroyed any hope of dialogue between the two parties when he spoke of what he called the "axis of evil."

The film also touches on Supreme Leader Khamenei's decision to intensify the uranium enrichment program and move forward with it, after Washington refused to engage in dialogue with his country.

Then the arrival of the Barack Obama administration to the White House and the signing of the nuclear agreement on July 14, 2015, in which Tehran pledged to limit its uranium enrichment program to energy production for civilian purposes and to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons, provided that in return it gets a gradual lifting of the sanctions that were suffocating its economy.

The documentary discusses the position of Tel Aviv, which described that nuclear agreement as a disaster, leading to the American withdrawal from the nuclear agreement after Donald Trump came to the White House, and the assassination of the Quds Force commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, General Qassem Soleimani, on January 3, 2020, by plane. An American march at Baghdad International Airport, then the Iranian response to the assassination.