Apr 23, 2026 11:57pm PT

Canneseries Buzz Title ‘The Deal With Iran’: A Deep Dive Into Realities of Hostage Diplomacy

The series, cast as a spy thriller, is created by the Stuyck brothers, (‘Where Dreams Go to Sleep,’ ‘DNA’), documentary stars in their native Flanders

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Reality more often than not surpasses fiction: It is yet again the case with “The Deal with Iran”, a three-part Belgian docuseries by Lennart and Maarten Stuyck, shedding light on the little known Belgian-led investigation that thwarted a bomb plot against the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, and the deadly game of hostage diplomacy that followed leading to the liberation of a Belgian humanitarian worker, after 15 months of arbitrary imprisonment.

Canneseries Buzz Title 'The Deal With Iran': A Deep Dive Into Realities of Hostage Diplomacy