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

uh with Iran and to destroy Iran, to destroy its infrastructure so that a state so the state can no longer provide the services to the citizens.

Quote is that's the quote of what they say they would like uh like to see.

Uh of course, I mean this is uh uh amounts to to to to demand

uh that the state should be so destroyed that it is unable to provide any services to its people really amounts to a slow tactical nuclear weapon strike instead of a a big one, because it means without water, without electricity,

at this time of year without fuel, I mean, this would be impossible.

To survive.

And if this happens, um the um Iranians will will strike back at the water purification plants of Saudi Arabia.

uh and the Gulf states and they're very vulnerable in that.

Iran is less vulnerable in water purification.

Only three percent of their water comes from purification.

Absolutely.

Uh uh but is that in the calculus in Washington?

I mean how much of this is actually

Of course it's understood in parts of Washington.

But how much is this put to Trump when he's in the right sort of state of mind?

to to hear this and to understand it.

Um and not to go on saying, Oh, Iran is defeated, it's broken, we've won the war.

Uh uh uh uh this is you know, this is the the uncertain part uh of this.

What what might happen anywhere in the region, but a mistaken decision taken.

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