Alastair Crooke

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The Chris Hedges Report · Is the Ceasefire Dead? (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

And this is the real problem facing Trump.

I think probably Trump is looking for a way out, although he doesn't seem to be able to find it.

I mean, my understanding from Iran is there's no deal in prospect at the moment.

Anyway, the gaps are too great.

And also from their perspective,

this whole political diplomatic approach has really disintegrated.

Because even yesterday, Trump was saying, of course, a deal is near, but Iranians are not going to get any resources.

They're not going to get their money back until it's all finished, and we're not going to allow...

and we're going to keep the blockade on Hormuz until the end of this very long process, which occurs well after a long ceasefire, and then the sides would supposedly talk.

And Besant says, no, well, anyway, whatever happens,

assets, frozen assets Iran owns, we're going to give them to the Gulf states in reparations.

So the Iranians really see this whole, you know, there isn't a political...

there's no political coherence or structure.

And so, you know, yes, they keep sending messages by mediators, but sometimes the mediators are in themselves somewhat problematic.

They put a very Panglossian approach, a touch on messages going to the Iranian side in the hope of

helping to get a solution, no doubt.

But nonetheless, it has created quite a lot of confusion within Iran and problems as a consequence.

So they don't see any, they don't see, I mean, what is Trump going to do and what is he going to do about Israel?

I mean, people talk about the Reagan example and that, you know, Reagan told Netanyahu, you know, stop, you've got to back off.

but it's not clear to Iran whether that's possible because, as I say, the whole thinking has changed and suddenly, you know, as much as Iran is a problem, Lebanon is an even greater problem because these Hezbollah drones are hitting the northern townships.

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