Alastair Crooke
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
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And they will say, you'll have to give up the Hormuz completely.
You'll have to give up the Hormuz.
And they will say, no, we are in control of it and we don't intend to give it up.
And then the negotiators on the American side will probably say, well, if you do what we set out in our 15-point plan or whatever it is, then slowly sanctions will be lifted on you according to how you behave.
And Iran will say, listen, you forget our basic equation, prosperity for all or prosperity for none.
If you do that, you're going to have an economic crisis.
And I think probably that is where we're going to go.
There will be eventually financial, economic crisis, certainly in Europe, but in America too.
The debt market will tank.
The stock market will go.
It will be a crisis.
And people will eventually, you know, unfortunately, pain is the greatest instigator of change.
I mean, I think when the pain becomes sufficient, then there will be a decision in the White House that they have to rethink how they approach this and that maybe the 10-point plan was something that they could actually work with and that they understand that those were preconditions to a ceasefire, not the discussion points during a ceasefire, but the preconditions.
and they include the lifting of sanctions and it's first primary sanctions and second sanctions that affect iran i mean you've heard these same stories from russia i mean this is the same the same sort of thing and either either people will face up to that or it's going to be a long and painful period in in coming ahead for us unfortunately because i think it's important
I was going to say, but nonetheless, I think that's not a bad thing, not a disaster, because I do think, I mean, maybe I'm speaking, you know, I'm going too contrary, but I think we in the West need a process of capacity.
We've sunk into nihilism and we've sunk into a sort of negative as modernism.
and economic structures that damage the majority of our peoples.
The minority gets rich by doing very little, but many people are suffering today.
I mean, it's hard.
Jobs are getting scattered, and it's hard.
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