Alastair Crooke
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
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special forces, many aircraft.
We have heard from the Pentagon that the number of aircraft involved and were downed.
The Iranians had spotted this coming.
They knew about the airport being used there.
And so the whole thing was ambushed.
And I think Trump is very frightened by what
Joe Green has been saying to him very publicly, and he said, listen, if you go into Iran, if you go boots on the ground in Iran, they will take prisoners.
You'll have hostages.
You'll be just like Clinton, and you'll never live it down.
And I'm told that this is really seeped into Trump's consciousness about the dangers of, first of all, exposing air assets too readily, because it's clear that the Iranians have more sophisticated air defenses than they had before.
in the 12-day war because the Pentagon itself is saying we are having radar lock-ons of us all we haven't seen before.
And even in this last exercise where it's promoted, it's promoted wildly that Israel went in and bombed all these targets.
in Iran, my settled conviction is I even know the sort of the missile they were using, but it was fired from Iraq.
It was a standoff operation of cruise missiles fired from Iraqi airspace.
They didn't go into Iranian airspace in this last, you know, over this weekend skirmish.
That's exactly right.
I think, as I say, there are these two great unknowns, which is, you know, because you can never predict economic crisis for when they're going to start exactly.
Otherwise, you'd be a very rich person.
But one is the economic crisis, and maybe it started last Friday when there was a sudden blip on the markets where we saw
sea of red taking over when people saw the statistics, labor statistics.
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