Alastair Crooke

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The Chris Hedges Report · Why the Iran War Won’t End Soon (w/ Alastair Crooke) | TCHR · 9 Aug 2026 podcast

Uh certainly.

I thought uh one of the things was quite striking.

You read off this list of um missiles and weapons that have been depleted during the course of the war.

And what is quite remarkable

Is how little that is achieved.

It has not degraded Iran's missile capability to any great extent.

It is not brought a change in uh posture by Iran.

і і гас файл utterly to change the the war

And it really, I think, represents the end of a way of fighting.

Over the period we've we've seen since the Second World War, the West has completely moved over to the idea of control of airspace, control of the um uh of ability to carpet bomb its enemies and believed it had complete freedom to go where it wanted, when it wanted, how it wished.

And that's come to an end.

And what has brought it to an end is basically uh cheap components, electronic components that have allowed states to produce missiles.

And so Iran has uh actually found the answer to this.

You bury your missiles.

You bury the production systems, you bury the leadership.

It was called mosaic system.

But you it's been very effective and I think your your your your reading off of that list um underlines uh just how much it is.

Both Israel and the United States say.

I mean th that Iran has n the same capacity in terms of the missiles.

They don't have an air force, but they have missile air dominance at this stage over the Gulf and it in contrast to the air dominance that um the United States has not been able to fully achieve.

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