Although facts suggest otherwise, it is claimed in the movie that the Koppel team was the last group of American journalists allowed into Iran before the Iranian government stopped granting journalist visas in 2006. This was a direct response to claims that the U.S. blocked Iranian journalists from coming to the U.S. Koppel, whose groundbreaking coverage of the Iran hostage crisis morphed into ABC's "Nightline" in 1980, traveled throughout Iran for three weeks for the two-hour special.
Koppel on Discovery is produced by Discovery Channel managing editor, Ted Koppel and executive producer Tom Bettag.
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