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

to to to put more pressure on on Iran.

And so they are taking preemptive action there to stop that.

We've also seen um a a tanker, uh a gas tanker, um attacked by drones uh in a port in Egypt in these uh recent days.

It's not clear who

Who was responsible?

uh but the war between

Saudi Arabia and Yemen is getting much more intense.

And I think uh the reason that the um the Saudis blamed the Hashad in Iraq for the attacks on the Aramko uh uh facilities was probably because they didn't want to exacerbate the war uh with the Houssis.

The the Houthis are a formidable file fighting force.

And in the past they've delivered a huge defeat in the army of Egypt.

when they ended up killing I think twenty thousand Egyptian soldiers.

This was

In the past, long term in the past, not present.

But this is I mean, this is the sort of sense that

Saudi is not anxious to get into this war.

But at the same time Saudi now has no money.

I mean this is it's getting no revenue.

It is sh it was anyway short of money.

And it hasn't got that far with the um Abu Dhabi but the Gulf States too.

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