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

It's it's it's triggered something m much more profound, a sort of triggered a memory.

you know of Iran as a major civilizational power.

as something as a as a something that has been

a a dominant influence in the region for thousands of years and is being treated, you know, with no respect and discourtesy and called scum.

And and this has produced a very

tough mentality, I think, amongst the young.

So what you saw was not people on the streets saying,

Uh you know, come on, let's have a deal.

We want to get back to a deal.

I mean, they they the call is we want revenge.

That's what the the young um um are shouting for.

That's what we saw in those huge gatherings that took place at the funerals, both both there and in Iraq.

And in Iraq too.

three cities, each one producing four to five million um, if you like, uh people on the streets to mark um the funeral uh of the late um supreme leader.

Um uh I I I

You know, it's difficult to give you a a straight um quantitative answer to that because so much is unknown.

Uh we are in the middle, or at least the United States is uh is trying to deal with a major crisis in Japan.

of the Japanese yen uh falling precipitously.

And America trying to bail out, Ben Sen trying to bail out

um uh Japan um from its collapsing uh currency um and having to resort to sell off euros in order to buy yen to try and and and support it.

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