Alastair Crooke

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

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But that's what they're pressing on Trump to do, to try and push him further down.

They want it really so that Iran is not functionable.

as a going state, that it is too broken.

And then they want to see it divided up into sort of ethno-sectarian statelets, rather like Syria.

This happened to Syria, so that it is weak and easily dominated.

It will be difficult, but you could do some of it.

the Iranian electrical system is notably decentralized.

This is all part of the rethinking of asymmetrical warfare from the 2003 period.

So there are about, I think it's 150, 160 different electrical plants that are all interconnected.

And so they have a huge number of small plants

that are decentralized across Iran rather than a few big partners.

And Bushair is probably the biggest one that they have.

But that's a joint project with Russia.

But Iran has attacked that twice.

And I think this was a message.

And you asked me what was happening.

But first of all, Israel attacked Nantaz, which is another nuclear site, facility.

Nantaz is still damaged from when Trump bombed it.

But then they landed a missile quite near to Bushehr, which is a functioning nuclear power plant jointly run by the Russians.

And it's under full IEA supervision because the Russians want it like that.

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