Iran's Sahar 1 TV channel is currently airing a weekly series titled "Zahra's Blue Eyes," set in Israel and the West Bank. In the series, the "Zionists" are graphically portrayed as kidnapping little Palestinian children and harvesting their organs. Traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes are interwoven in the series, such as Jewish racial superiority, as well as anti-Israeli political propaganda.

The plot involves a fictional Israeli candidate for Prime Minister, Yitzhak Cohen, who is also the military commander of the West Bank. The show contains graphic scenes of surgery and images of a hospitalized Palestinian girl whose eyes have been removed, with bandages covering the sockets.

Israel is presented as flaunting its "racial superiority." Cohen, a sinister manipulator, says: "We are the best of the races in the world. Our land should extend from the Euphrates to the Nile. The oil lies between the Euphrates and the Nile."

Israel is portrayed as a leading country in the field of medical transplants and cloning human organs, which has a stock of dozens of human hearts and artificial fetuses. Cohen is looking among the children of a Palestinian refugee camp for the perfect candidate to provide various body parts for his deformed son. The Palestinian refugee children are presented as a stockpile of numbers on the Israelis' lists in their search for the optimal human organs to be used to "rebuild" Cohen's deformed son.

The Israelis in the series orchestrate a grand scheme of deception, in which they kidnap a young Palestinian girl whose eyes were found to be suitable, and present an intricate lie to her relatives and to the entire refugee camp, informing them that she requires hospitalization in order to prevent the spread of a fictitious contagious eye-disease. The Israelis are depicted as masters in manipulation and deception and as violent, abusive, materialistic and greedy.

Each episode contains a short characterization of the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the Palestinian angle, in which the Zionists are depicted as occupiers and usurpers.

In the latest episode, number 7, Zahra's plight arouses the Palestinian masses to rebel against the Zionist usurpers. Zahra's brother Isma'il vows to avenge her by committing a martyrdom operation. Thus, the helpless little girl, Zahra, symbolizes the oppressed Palestine. When she is blinded, she becomes a witness and a testimony to the plight of Palestine, enabling the young generation to see their course of action with clarity. The series provides a justification of Palestinian martyrdom operations against Israelis.

In Episode 1, Yitzhak Cohen lectures at a medical conference on the advances being made by Israeli medicine regarding organ transplants. Later in the episode, Israelis disguised as UN workers visit a Palestinian school, ostensibly to examine the children's eyes for diseases, but in reality to select which children's eyes to steal to be used for transplants. The following is an excerpt from the first episode:

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View clip from Episode 1
Sahar 1 TV (Iran), December 13, 2004

Scene: Palestinian School

Nurse: "They have come to prevent the spreading of an eye disease. We must let them examine the children."

Teacher: "Okay..."

Doctor: "Open your eyes, my dear. Good. Come, yes. And you. Good. You too... God bless you. Good."

Camp Nurse: "What kind of a program is this? Why aren't you examining everyone? Why are they taking pictures? What's going on here?!"

Doctor: "Calm down please. We are only doing our duty..."

Yitzhak Cohen (on TV screen): "We are the best of the races in the world. Our land should extend from the Euphrates to the Nile. The oil lies between the Euphrates and the Nile... The whole world will be shaken by the oil shortage problem. This is a difficult stage that will determine the fate of the entire world, and all eyes will be upon this region."

Scene: Israeli Meeting

General: "This is the one! Here you go, Doctor."

Doctor: "Here you go, sir. Take a look."

Yitzhak Cohen: "Who is this?..."

Military man: "Zahra Abd Al-Rahman Muhammad. Age: seven; blood type: O+."

General: She lives in the central refugee camp. Eye color: green."

Yitzhak Cohen: "Good..."

General: "Sir, there are 32 children that you haven't seen yet, and there is also a ship docked at the shore with a cargo of artificial fetuses..."

Yitzhak Cohen: "This one! Her eyes remind me of my wife."

View clip from Episode 2

View clip from Interview with the Writer and Director of the Series