Alastair Crooke

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

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They've given the Iraqi government a little leeway.

Um but from what I see is that there are both, if you like, movements on both sides of the border.

Um and maybe it will be contained but it is a very fragile state.

Uh some Iraqi security people have said actually it wasn't

Yeah, uh it wasn't the Hashad the the resistance, the Iraqi resistance that attacked

the Saudi um oil facilities, it was Ukrainian.

Groups that were doing it.

I I don't think we have to attach too much importance to that.

But it comes at a time at which an um Iranian ship was struck.

and struck by Ukrainian missiles in in the Caspian Sea.

So that is very much heating up um between um Saudi Arabia and um I Iraq.

and the United States and Iraq and the Hashad are clearly mobilizing but have not yet taken the decision.

the same time in Iraq the Iranians have moved into Abil.

Uh that is the Kurdish part of Iraq, Kurdistan if you like.

um and attacked the Kurdish forces there, assassinating some of their leaders, attacking their their supply lines, their fuel and ammunition.

Because there are reports that the United States was trying to sort of see if it was possible to revive

A a sort of

a plan which has already failed for Kurds to sort of

in i i invade into Iran and establish a sort of mini state.

Um uh we saw that in you know in Russia, in the Kursk region.

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