This Emmy-winning series is the most common association with your query. It follows Tamar Rabinyan, a Mossad hacker-agent born in Iran but raised in Israel, who goes undercover in the Iranian capital.

The second year, I stopped flinching at the sight of morality police and started noticing the small rebellions: a girl’s bright nail polish peeking from a sleeve, the underground rap passed on a USB stick. Tehran wasn’t what the news said. It was louder, hungrier, more alive.