Alastair Crooke
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913 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Alastair Crooke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It has been a failure.
None of their aims have been achieved.
In fact, what it has shown, and again, hugely reluctant to sort of really address this, is the complete intelligence failure upon which it was all based.
possibly with one mitigating alternative idea.
But the idea was that Iran was a house of cards and that all one had to do is sort of Trump could just go in, decapitate, attack a few buildings, and then the whole thing would...
collapse and fall down and that the Kurds would surge in and, you know, establish a mini-state.
And that would be the beginning of the breakup of Iran into a series of ethno-sectarian mini-states instead of Iran as a state.
And, I mean, the Kurds didn't cooperate.
And there was no real uprising.
I mean, there was, you know, a temporary thing, which went back, you know, because everyone sort of...
dates all this to that meeting that the New York Times reported that was, I think, what was it, in February or something.
But actually, the real meeting that had decided on this plan had taken place, according to the Hebrew-speaking reporters that were with Trump, took place on the 29th of January.
29th of December at Mar-a-Lago when there was a private summit between Trump and Netanyahu.
And Netanyahu then said, listen, you've got to do it because what you've got to do, forget the nuclear thing.
I mean, it was quite surprising.
He said, it's not the nuclear thing, it's the missiles.
The priority has to be the missiles.
Not nuclear thing.
These new missiles are not just a replacement by Iran.
It is an entirely new concept.
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