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

My understanding is we've gone back to uh the sense that Iran has had for some time, is that this will not be settled in a sort of uh in some sort of deal.

That ultimately they thought for a long time that a war with the United States was inevitable, that that was the only way out of the um predicament in in which Iran has been trapped for the last forty seven years.

And that this war was inevitable, it was going to come.

And I think that if it comes, um they feel they are ready for it um in a and in a much better position than Mr Trump uh in in Washington, as the pressures on the oil markets bite and also as the military realities of Washington.

uh become uh o obvious.

The inability to fire standoff weapons, the inability to really do damage to the missile cities.

Uh so what are they going to attack?

Pickaxe mountain?

It's a it's a granite mountain.

with the um uh whatever facilities it has buried a thousand meters under granite.

I mean all that would happen is he'd bounce m arms off it.

It wouldn't

hit it.

One of their missile cities has now been hit forty-five times by American bombing uh during that process.

And still every you know, f half an hour afterwards it was firing missiles um from that same site.

So I I think we're in a in a different sort of atmospheric different phase to increase the pressure on the United States because

the the appetite for a a a sh quick deal is not there and that is s very clearly reflected on the ground.

in Iran.

Um we saw this during the funeral process and others.

The uh Iranian mood has become is quite changed.

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