(photo credit: Fabian Ortiz)

You don't have to be a Middle East expert to recognize the relationship between Iran and its western foes has gotten just a wee bit tense.

There's been sabre rattling military exercises, threats to slow the flow of oil to a trickle, downed drones and uranium enrichment in a highly protected underground bunker.

This week the Iranian government sentenced an Iranian-American to death. Amir Mirza Hekmati was arrested in December. Iran says he's a spy, and that he was in Iran on an intelligence mission. His mother says he was visiting family.

Shortly after his arrest, Iranian TV and newspapers published what they say is a confession.

It's impossible for us to know how his confession was extracted.

But in it, Hekmati says he'd worked with a company called Kuma Games - making propaganda video games for the Central Intelligence Agency.

Day 6 first featured Kuma Games last year. At the time they'd just rushed out a video game version of the US raid on the Abbottabad compound that ended with the death of Osama bin Laden.

It's one of the things they specialize in: video game stories ripped from the headlines.

But could they secretly be CIA propagandists?  Day 6 producer Dominic Girard's documentary tries to make sense of it.