Alastair Crooke
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first heard Apr 2026
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I mean, many civilians being killed where residential areas have been attacked.
But on the whole, they have had few casualties.
And the second thing is that their military is in better shape than it was at the end of the war.
First of all, the reason for that is, again, a rather strange one.
The Iranians bought a lot of these decoys, huge numbers of decoys from the Chinese.
that imitated airplanes and missiles and so on.
But the Chinese gave them a twist, which was interesting.
And I didn't know this before, but they have a heat source.
So when they're picked up by radar or by sensors, it looks real, because it not only looks the part, but it actually emits the heat of a real missile or an airplane.
And so largely, the Israelis and the United States have been bombing decoys.
They've also been trying to bomb the main missile cities.
But if you take a main one like Yaz, it is buried in a granite mountain, 800 meters deep, really deep, and there's concrete.
And there's a whole railway system.
underneath those tunnels and railway systems under this mountain.
And they deliver the missiles on railway trucks and the railway
takes it right up to the entrance, an airtight door opens, it moves to the entrance, and the missile is fired.
The airtight door comes down, and the train withdraws.
Well, the Israelis have been bombing and bombing us, and the mountain is getting blacker and blacker, but it's not affecting their missiles.
And these missiles, and I've made this point many times, what they haven't understood about the mosaic system that the Iranians started planning for this asymmetric war 20 years ago is that they are dispersed across the extent of Iran, which is a huge country with mountains and forests the size of Western Europe, effectively.
And they are buried deep, deep.
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