Alastair Crooke
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913 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
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are saying, okay, if Hezbollah is a target and is being targeted and being held at the moment, and it is not part of the ceasefire, well, then maybe we'll consider that the whole of Israel is not part of the ceasefire and will continue to target there.
So it is quite tenuous, and I understand that in the last period,
The Iranian authorities have refused to allow ships to pass through Hormuz.
They've stopped that at the moment.
Well, I would explain it not in terms of just sort of literal what is in and what is not in.
I would say from the Iranian perspective, the purpose...
of what's happened, or at least the attack that took place on Saturday last.
We killed the supreme leader.
That has given an opportunity to change the situation, to break the paradigm.
They want to get out of the cage.
What do I mean by the cage?
Well, it's not the sort of physical cage of Gaza where there are fences and roads flying over.
But nonetheless, it's been 74, 75 years of taging.
If you look at a map, you'll see all around Iran, every side, it is hemmed in by military bases all around.
It is hemmed in by sanctions, by tariffs, by economic siege on the country.
by political, even cultural isolation.
And they see this, therefore, not as an attempt to, not as a process that will lead, if you like, to new deterrence, a new form of, as we go back, there'll be a ceasefire, then it'll end, and then there'll be another round of military.
They want an end to war.
They want this to bring about an end to the war, and they believe they're on a strong position.
In fact, I know this will seem counterintuitive to many of the audience, but actually Iran has emerged stronger from this month of war than it did at the end of the 12-day war last June in many ways.
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