Alastair Crooke

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

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The Tucker Carlson Show · BREAKING: Netanyahu’s Terror Attack on Lebanon Destroys Trump’s Ceasefire. Tucker Reacts. · 9 Apr 2026 podcast

That was the lesson that the Iranians learned from the attack on Baghdad in 2003.

They saw how air power could come in and could destroy the command center and the military capabilities of Saddam Hussein at that time.

And they decided we have to manage a way that we will not suffer a decapitation strike.

So they implemented this asymmetric role where the leadership is completely dispersed across the country.

Again, autonomous, if you like, commands.

They have their own missiles.

The commander has the initiative to fire those, to use troops.

And they are completely immune from any cut or communications or an assault or a decapitation strike because they have preset plans.

sealed plans.

Each commander has these sealed plans of what to do if the Supreme Leader is killed.

And they tell him what the next proposals are.

So it's like a sort of huge retributive machine that snaps into action the second the command is lost.

And we'll continue the war.

We'll continue with pre-set plans.

And we saw that happen.

uh on that saturday when the supreme leader was still within the hour those plans were unfurled and attacks were starting on gulf states or and military u.s military bases in the in the area so all in all what i'm saying to you is that you know um and people i think could be quite surprised um at the resilience that um iran has has shown in this

And now they're trying to, if you like, leverage this resilience to bring about a major change in the situation.

And the Iranians have some

equations that is best to understand if you want to understand what their position is it's like the one i mentioned about the ceasefire but it is security for all or security for no one prosperity for all in the region or prosperity for no one if we are attacked we will move up the escalation ladder accordingly

But the aim is to try and bring about a complete change, as I say, to change the region through the control over the hormones, to change the region away from being a petrodollar region, away from it being, if you like, part of the...

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