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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He's always said, we've got to get this Iranian thing settled in four to six weeks so that I can concentrate on trying to save the midterm results.
But now, after the failure of
to try and extract the uranium from Isfahan, I think the only thing that was facing him was a long war or massive escalation.
And that wasn't going to work well for the midterms or his situation in the country.
So I think he was hoping for a way out.
Is it going to work?
Can it work?
Well, that's what I mean about the contradictions.
Iran doesn't want a ceasefire.
It wants an end to the wars, an end to its siege.
It wants to be able to get out and play a role in the region.
And of course, that is not the interest, not only of Trump, but particularly of Israel.
Israel has been pressing.
I read the Hebrew press regularly.
We do sort of summaries of it.
And they've given up on the idea of what they call a regime change in Iran.
They realize it's not going to happen.
It's not going to work.
Maybe it never was going to work.
I mean, they say this, you know, in the Hebrew press, much frankly, than in the English language.
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