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

Mr Trump is trying to prevent

an economic cras collapse.

That's what it was.

And I think this is uh uh I think he hit the nail on the head that i it's the focus very much is now

On preserving the economy, on preserving

the dollar hegemony, on preserving the petrodollar, on preserving that whole structure of credit, provision of credit and finance, which underwrites the US military presence around the world, which finances wars and finances the weapons that fight the wars.

And keeping that going is probably

um the highest priority and Iran is threatening that very process.

The petrodollar, it's threatening the hegemony, it's threatening that whole Gulf construct.

which is actually a sort of

um uh an element of the that Wall Street financialised world pronked down in the Gulf states right next to Iran um and is um exactly the sort of threat

um that the Iranians uh would like to see gone.

The financial threat, the financial structures there.

i the the the new the new economy for the Gulf states is data centers.

They want the data status centers, and of course he run noswipe.

cheap energy and also it will be able to monitor everything in the Middle East on behalf of Israel and America.

They don't want that.

And that's why they destroyed um the big data centre in in the Amazon data centre um uh just recently.

Okay.

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