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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That went wrong and there was an ambush.
Many planes and helicopters were destroyed in that process and it failed.
I think I was what, you know, Trump was very much counting on, you know, that they could
You know, do a Maduro, do a Venezuela.
You know, the special forces would go in one night over a long Easter weekend when the markets were closed.
They would go in, go to where Grossi, the head of the IEA, would say, you know, there's half of the enriched uranium sitting in a tunnel in this Fahan and take it and then come back.
And before the market opens, we've won.
It's a great success.
But it went badly wrong.
My guess is, you know, that's over.
You can't repeat that exercise now.
Not because the Iranians know of it.
They knew all along.
I mean, you know, they're not stupid.
They knew that the main aim of Trump would be to try and seize the uranium and then sort of put it out as a trophy.
We destroyed their nuclear capabilities.
Now we have more than half.
whilst he said it was 60 to 70% of the total 430 kilos of 60% enriched uranium.
I really don't know.
It sounded very ominous to me.
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