Alastair Crooke

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458 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 9 Aug

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uh forty percent of the others are split between Sunnis a and Kurds.

So the the uh Sunnis are are are quite a small proportion and the Shi are the largest proportion.

And the Hashad are r always referred to in Western media and saying, Oh, but these are just Iranian proxies.

And so as if you know putting pressure on them would put pressure on Iran.

In the Homer's dispute

They're not that.

I mean I know them, I've met the Hashad.

Uh and these are

Put straightforwardly these Iraqi nationalists.

They are strongly Iraqi nationals.

Yes, sail she.

And yes, Iran is the sort of mothership of Shiism.

But these are Iraqi nationalists and they've been packed

And they also, for the majority of them

um accepted the and followed um the supreme leader who was assassinated.

uh on the twenty ninth of February as their uh source of emulation, their majah.

and and so they are deeply angry uh about the his his death.

He was their religious leader too, not Iran's.

And so they've said there will be retribution.

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