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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Firstly, because in economic terms, they are benefiting.
For example, in the last first month of this war, they have earned more revenue from their oil sales, from tankers passing from Kark Island to the Hormuz and being sold.
In this one month, they have earned double what they've ever earned in previous years in one month.
And just to take as an example, for example, on Sunday, they loaded five tankers in Carg Island at the terminal there.
That was 7.7 million barrels of oil.
And they earned $850 million in one day from that.
So the revenue, if you like, potential revenue from Hormuz
will be enormous.
It would be probably in a year just under a trillion dollars on the basis that they're charging at the moment.
They're not only charging that, but they're also demanding it in Guam, which is part of the bigger, if you like, plan they have, which is to break the sanctions.
not only to break the hormones, but by insisting that carcass had to be charged in yuan, the Chinese currency, and not in dollars, to get permission to pass through Bar Kethem Island and Jarad Island.
And they are then escorted by the Iranians through the element Siaga.
But in the other aspects, which will be seen, strike probably listeners as even more surprising, is that their casualties are probably less than in the 12-day war.
Why?
Well, because what they learned from the 12-day war is evacuate all public buildings that you possibly can.
Upsteading hospitals, but everything else, empty.
State buildings, security buildings, educational buildings, all are empty.
And so the attacks, which are focused very much on those, have caused far fewer casualties.
You know, there may be a caretaker or someone who unfortunately is killed in these.
And of course, civilians being killed.
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