Alastair Crooke
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
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I think the Russians helped it in a different way, more with drones.
You know, the Iranians helped with their drones, the Shakin drones.
I mean, the Russians asked for them for use in Ukraine and they took them and then they upgraded them.
And now some of that upgrading is coming back to Iran to see, I think, Russia.
Oh, as such, I don't think it's possible.
Not in that sense.
If you mean to destroy their ability to continue a military conflict with Israel and the United States bases in the region, I don't think they can.
The Iranians have even buried their construction plants for missiles.
They're not on the surface.
And these missiles, they come up.
If they're not in a mountain coming out on the train, they come up from silos, you know, 200 meters deep.
And they just come straight up out of the silo.
And then a new rocket, a new missile is automatically, there's a rotating, if you like, missile.
I don't know, crumb, and it moves the next missile directly.
It doesn't get exposed.
It's not out in the open.
It's 200 meters underground.
And then the airtight door shuts as soon as the missile has left.
I think it would be very, very difficult to defeat
uh iran in that sense to destroy its military capabilities and it would be even less possible to take control of almost now from um from iran you you have to look at the geography
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