Former MI6 man Alastair Crooke: propaganda about Iranian massacres is at full blast and is 'almost impossible to correct'

Former MI6 spy and now political analyst Alastair Crooke, talking to Iranian-Brazilian academic Nima Alkhorshid yesterday:

"...what [Trump] ideally wanted was to do a quick operation into Iran, a quick operation that could be projected as punishing Iran for its massacre of the protesters, massacre in inverted commas because we all know how much that's just propaganda and the propaganda also is at full blast in Europe. I mean it is really you know at sort of volume 11. So you read things in the western newspapers about how Iran machine gunned the protesters down and how thousands were killed and it was a slaughter. And many people in America and in Europe now believe this. You know, narratives have become something that it's almost impossible to correct or displace. In fact, you're more or less wasting your energy trying to correct that sort of narrative because he it's now become ingrained. 

"... But this is also a bigger war. It's not just about Iran and its ballistic missiles. It's about Russia. It's about China. It's about BRICS. And it's about America's determination to dominate the energy field, to dominate, if you like, corridors, pathways, naval passages for vessels and to, if you like, impose a siege not only on Iran but on Russia and on China, as they militarised many of the islands adjacent to China. And every day you see ships being seized. I mean not even tankers. I think the Danes have just seized an Iranian container ship because of 'problems in its registration'. It had come from St. Petersburg or something. And this is a bigger war and it's a war of the power of Israel to set and dominate the future of West Asia."

Nima Alkhorshid points out that "Iran didn't know October 7th was going to happen. That's why I don't see that Iran could do something to Hamas to convince them to disarm". Mr. Crooke adds that the Houthis do not take instructions from Iran.