Iran produces TV series to highlight nuclear achievement

Sep 5, 2007, 17:45 GMT

Tehran - Iran started on Wednesday production of a television series aimed at encouraging Iranians to support the country's struggle to pursue its nuclear programme.

The 20-part Fataneh series follows similar initiatives such as a computer game, stamp and even a banknote carrying the standard nuclear energy emblem.

Fars news agency reported that the first day of filming started at the uranium conversion plant in Tehran, central Iran.

Producer Hamid Akhundi said that all those involved in the television series consider it as their duty to express necessity for achieving nuclear technology through the language of art.

The story is focused on Iran's nuclear work within the framework of an espionage theme, Fars reported.

In July, Iran's Islamic High School Society introduced a computer game called Special Operations 85. The society said the aim of the game is 'transferring ideological values such as sacrifice and martyrdom to the pupils while focusing on the nuclear issue.'

The game follows two Iranian nuclear scientists who are arrested and jailed by the United States while on a pilgrimage to southern Iraq.

The hero of the game - an Iranian special agent - not only has to save the Iranians but catch an Israeli-Iranian spy who transfers classified nuclear information to the West.

Iran also plans to distribute a stamp as tribute to its success of having reached the know-how for peaceful nuclear technology.

In June authorities released a new banknote that carries the standard nuclear energy emblem and a saying by the Muslim prophet Mohammed that 'Persians would acquire any knowledge even if it is in the sky (seemingly unachievable).'

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has exposed nuclear energy work as a national issue saying that Western opposition to Iran's nuclear project was de facto rejecting a unanimous demand by the Iranian nation.