Alastair Crooke

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913 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 9 Jun

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But also it's possibly something that we have to go through for a process of renewal.

We've got to go through this.

I mean, all our institutions are tired.

our civilizations lack energy, lack anima.

How do we restore all that?

Well, no one's got a simple answer to that, but this is the process we've got to start, I think, slowly addressing.

Sorry, a longish answer to your question.

Here's a video of it.

It's very tenuous.

At the moment, it's very tenuous.

It's already eroding somewhat.

And I'm not sure that the contradictions and tensions, the underlying tensions within the ceasefire can hold.

It may be that it's already eroding, that Israel has been attacking Lebanon.

There is some dispute as to whether Lebanon was supposed to be a part of the ceasefire or separate to it.

Initially, it was definitely a part of it.

Now, Mr Netanyahu is saying it is not.

And it seems to be that that has been confirmed by the press secretary at the White House.

But the Iranian reaction to that is that they have an equation.

Either there's a ceasefire for all or there's a ceasefire for nobody.

I know that what's happening in the Majas at the moment in the parliament in Tehran is that the security committee there

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