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DEBKAfile
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August 11, 2009, 1:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
Disillusioned by Tehran's rebuffs, US president Barack Obama is switching tactics for arresting Iran's drive for a nuclear bomb. The coming DEBKA-Net-Weekly outlines these tactics, starting with harsh sanctions backed by preparations for near-term military action, in which Ahmadinejad's Revolutionary Guards may be first in the US line of ...
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August 10, 2009, 10:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
Almost a week after Israeli prime minister held his first talks with US president Barack Obama at the White House, last Tuesday, May 18, some of the fog obscuring their content is finally beginning to clear.
The White House was forced to rebut a major misapprehension, that the US president would ... 
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August 8, 2009, 9:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Obama administration has indicated for the first time that diplomatic engagement is not its only option for grappling with Iran's nuclear weapons drive, debkafile's military sources report. If Congress shifts enough funds to the program, the radar-evading B-2 bomber would be capable of carrying the non-nuclear, 30,000-pound ...
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August 8, 2009, 8:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
The weeklong US-Israel marathon in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv ending Thursday, July 30 was the platform for the Obama administration's first unveiling of a new US diplomatic-military program for Iran and its nuclear threat, debkafile's military and intelligence sources disclose. The US visitors said: Iran is a big ...
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August 6, 2009, 10:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's political sources report that Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak's prediction Tuesday, Aug. 4, that the US is preparing to present a "Middle East peace plan" within weeks, which Israel should accept, was misleading. According to our Washington sources, the Obama White House is not thinking in terms ...
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August 3, 2009, 9:40 AM (GMT+02:00)
How to exploit the deep cracks forming in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration for removing the Iranian president was a top item on the agenda of the high-level talks between Barack Obama's advisers and Israeli officials at Mossad headquarters in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv, Wednesday, July 29.
debkafile's Iranian ...
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August 3, 2009, 9:33 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israel permitted 130 Palestinian delegates to enter the country from Lebanon and Syria to attend the Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction's first general conference in 25 years which opens Tuesday, Aug. 4 in Bethlehem. Among them are notorious terrorists, some of whom were traded in former prisoner swaps.
Hamas has shut Gaza ... 
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August 2, 2009, 9:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military and Washington sources report that President Barack Obama is getting set for some military arm-twisting against Iran spearheaded by Israel. This will be the main subject of defense secretary Robert Gates talks in Israel Tuesday, July 28 and was presaged by a strong message secretary of ...
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August 1, 2009, 3:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
A flock of US presidential emissaries descends on Israel this week. debkafile's Washington sources report that their briefs reflect US president Barack Obama's new caution on his next Middle East steps. He has backed away from formulating a new Middle East plan which he was widely reported as ...
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July 29, 2009, 1:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
US president Barack Obama is seriously weighing a reassessment of his Middle East policy approaches and changing around his key White House and National Security Council advisers. DEBKA-Net-Weekly reveals he feels his initiatives, particularly in Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, have fallen flat and is ready to step ...
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July 22, 2009, 11:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
In a few days, the Israeli anti-missile Arrow system will face the first real test, weather permitting, of its ability to knock out an Iranian Shehab-3 or Sejil II ballistic missile at the outset of its flight toward Israel, debkafile's military sources report. The test will take place ...
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July 21, 2009, 1:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
US president Barack Obama invited a wide range of American Jewish leaders to the White House Tuesday in view of the importance he attaches to winning their community's support for his Middle East and Israel policies.
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July 20, 2009, 10:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's diplomatic and Washington sources disclose that Fred Hoff, head of the Syrian desk in George Mitchell's US Middle East mission, asked Israeli's leaders, when he met them Monday, July 13: Is the incumbent government prepared to restart talks with Syria from the point they were broken off ...
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July 13, 2009, 9:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
Talking to CNN from Moscow Tuesday, July 7, US President Barack Obama "absolutely" denied a Washington green light for Israel to strike Iran's nuclear facilities.
This was a direct contradiction of the words of US vice president Joseph Biden, who two days earlier told ABC television that the US would ... 
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July 11, 2009, 4:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
US president Barack Obama and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev were of one mind in one key sphere, the need to continue the war on al Qaeda and the Taliban. This concurrence produced on Day One of Obama's first official visit to Moscow an accord allowing the United States to fly ...
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July 11, 2009, 4:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
In an interview with ABC's George Stephanoupolos taped Saturday, vice president Joseph Biden said: "Israel can determine for itself - it's a sovereign nation - what's in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else." Whether we agree or not? The interviewer asked. "Whether ...
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July 4, 2009, 7:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
Two fundamental conceptions underpinning the Obama administration's Middle East policies have been swept away by the upheaval in Iran: the principle of nuclear negotiations with Iran and the premise that progress on the Palestinian peace front is the key to a US breakthrough with Iran.
Sunday, June 28, Washington observers familiar ... 
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July 3, 2009, 8:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak and prime minister's adviser Yitzhak Molcho arrived in New York Tuesday June 30 for talks with US envoy George Mitchell on the settlement construction row between the two governments. Except that while they were airborne, the White House suddenly switched to a new, flexible willingness ...
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July 1, 2009, 8:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
In another toughening of tone, US president Barack Obama admitted for the first time that "direct dialogue or diplomacy with Iran" would be "affected by the events of the last several weeks."
He advised Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to "look at the families of those who've been beaten or shot or detained..."
DEBKAfile
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July 1, 2009, 9:16 AM (GMT+02:00)
US and Iranian sources report that before Iran's presidential election, the Obama administration sent a secret letter to its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling for "cooperation in regional and bilateral relations" and a resolution of the dispute over Iran's nuclear program.
The Iranian media gave great prominence to the ... |
