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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It's either security for all or security for no one.
Prosperity for all or prosperity for no one.
And we are intent on it.
And the Iranians have a huge resilience.
They're unusual people, remarkable in many sense, because their reading of the revelation of the prophet is that you are mandated as a human being to oppose the oppression of others.
You are mandated similarly.
um to look after and to take care of the dispossessed i mean these are the fundamental things you go back to kabbalah you see that is the principles these were the the principles these were the principles of the the imam in induced and the third principle was the need to have active minds i want the people to have active minds to think for themselves and to think
well.
And for that reason, made it compulsory that if you went to university, you had to, if you wanted to study Islamic philosophy, you also had to study Western philosophy.
The two run together in Iranian universities.
So this gives them a very strong, and it explains why Iran is viewed as an enemy by people who are oppressing other people's
with enforcing special rights on some people and not on others in the region.
And that is where it is.
And I think that eventually,
we're going to get to the point because the tensions in Israel are huge, enormous tensions that are there.
You know, the staff went to the cabinet the other day and said, listen, the IDF, the military force is collapsing.
We're totally overextending.
It is collapsing.
And
You know, there's nothing we can do about it unless you want to produce another 400,000 troops.
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