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

So the pipeline was completely destroyed that provides um that transports Saudi oil from their main fields.

to the Red Sea.

And the Saudis um said

Not that it was the Houthis that did it, but it said it was the Iraqi resistance.

Um the Hashad al Jahar.

that were r were responsible for this.

The Hashad

A Shaibi divined it completely and said, No, it wasn't us that did this, because and it is likely that it wasn't because it's the Abayin um in Iraq, this is a celebration.

This is a solemn, if you like, period of forty days that marks the anniversary of the death of Imam Imam Hussein in in Kabbalah.

And it's a period uh it's a religious period, not one of conflict and war.

Um uh but the Saudis and America attacked them, the the the uh the Iraqi uh resistance, killing many and killing some.

um Iranian um uh forces of the IRG C.

Um and then Iraq has begun

an attempt to try and purge some of the resistance under the name of saying it's an anti corruption group.

But there are signs that the resistance have been moving up onto the borders.

if you like, uh, of Saudi Arabia moving closer towards that.

And the Iraqi government is trying to stop that and to try and contain that.

um and threatening um the um the the groups.

Uh you will know and I just for for listeners, uh to understand uh uh Iraq, uh Iraq approximately there are we have no exact numbers, but is roughly sixty percent Shia.

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