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October 27, 2009, 6:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Mohammed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, pulled a rabbit out of his hat Wednesday, Oct. 21 to save the Vienna talks with Iran on the future of its enriched uranium from breaking down on its third day. He put before the US, France and Russia and Iran ...
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October 24, 2009, 8:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafary, Monday, Oct. 19, threatened "crushing" retaliation against the US, UK and Pakistan including the invasion of its eastern neighbor. Tehran links all three to the suicide bombing attack in Sistan-Baluchistan Sunday, Oct. 18, which killed 42 people including ...
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October 20, 2009, 5:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
The probe announced Tuesday, Oct. 13, of one of the three presidential candidates defeated in Iran's June election looks like the first step toward using the tightly-controlled process of law to persecute the top dissenters who alleged that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected in a fraudulent poll. Former Speaker Mohammed Karroubi ...
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October 20, 2009, 11:56 AM (GMT+02:00)
Seven high-ranking Iranian officers among the 42 people who died in a suicide bombing attack in the Sistan-Baluchi provincial town of Pisheen early Sunday, Oct. 18.
Tehran vowed swift retribution, Parliament speaker Ali Larijani accused the US, which rejected the charge of involvement. debkafiled named one of the ... 
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October 19, 2009, 11:31 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that Russia's abrupt suspension of consignments of advanced Tor-M1 air defense missiles and S-300 anti-missile systems has left Tehran high and dry for effective weapons to defend itself and its nuclear facilities against attacks.
Our Iranian sources disclose that extreme frustration prompted the boasts ... 
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October 15, 2009, 9:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
Tehran plans to slash the supply of subsided gasoline to the public by 45 percent and ration individual purchases to 55 liters per month, down from the 100 allowed at present. This announcement Wednesday, Oct. 8, by Iranian oil minister Massoud Mirkazemi was Tehran's second step ahead of an expected ...
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October 15, 2009, 8:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki charged Wednesday, Oct. 7 that Tehran had "documents that prove US interference" in the disappearance of the nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri during a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia earlier this year. He spoke after attending an Iranian cabinet meeting. Six days after meeting the six powers ...
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October 9, 2009, 10:33 AM (GMT+02:00)
On Oct. 1, US president Barack Obama gave Tehran two weeks to provide International Atom Energy Agency inspectors with "unfettered access" to its second enrichment facility near Qom as the precondition for a second round of six-power talks with Iran. The IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei announced Sunday, Oct. 4, that ...
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October 6, 2009, 9:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
Iran has posted hundreds of agents in world ports to organize clandestine supplies through third countries of items subject to UN or US sanctions present or future. These items range from nuclear components to refined petroleum products. Dubai and the Ras al-Khaimah of the United Arab Emirates are two such ...
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October 4, 2009, 10:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
Up above a big military parade in Tehran on Tuesday, Sept. 22, as Iranian president declared Iran's armed forces would "chop off the hands" of any power daring to attack his country, two air force jets collided in mid-air. One was Iran's only airborne warning and control system (AWACS) for ...
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October 4, 2009, 1:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
US president Barack Obama Saturday, Sept. 26, threatened Iran with confrontation over the secrecy surrounding its nuclear capabilities. He did not rule out military options although he preferred diplomacy.
Tehran is clearly confident enough of America's ability to hold Israel back from striking its nuclear sites to stay defiant and ... 
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October 2, 2009, 11:16 AM (GMT+02:00)
Iran tested two surface-to-surface missiles, the Shehab 3 and Sejil Monday, Sept. 28. In Washington, the administration warned the Six-Power talks opening in Geneva Thursday would demand international inspectors be allowed immediate and full access to personnel who designed and built Iran's underground enrichment plant near Qom. According to
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September 29, 2009, 6:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
In a dramatic joint appearance in Pittsburgh, Friday, Sept. 25, Presidents Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy and prime minister Gordon Brown accused Iran of concealing a second uranium enrichment plant near Qom for years from international inspection. Taking time out from the G20 summit, they went on live television to ...
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September 28, 2009, 6:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
Diplomats attached to the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA disclosed Friday, Sept. 25, an Iranian letter to its director Mohamed ElBaradei admitting the existence of a second uranium enrichment plant in addition to Natanz.
The letter coincided with US president Barack Obama's statement when he opened the G20 summit in Pittsburgh ... 
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September 27, 2009, 4:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinjad's excessive oratory, matched by the shuffle of Western delegations led by the US leaving the UN General Assembly chamber, have been a typical feature of every new UN General Assembly session in the last three years. This time, his attacks on the US and Israel ...
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September 17, 2009, 8:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Iranian sources report: Buoyed up by its success in maneuvering the Obama administration into acceptaing dialogue with Tehran - regardless of its harsh crackdown on dissenters and refusal to discuss its nuclear program - the Islamic regime is again turning the screw on the opposition.
Those sources ... 
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September 17, 2009, 8:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
Timed to follow on the delivery of Tehran's response to the big powers' offer of nuclear talks, US intelligence agencies informed the New York Times Thursday, Sept. 10, that "Iran has created enough nuclear fuel to make a rapid, if risky spring for a nuclear weapon."
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September 15, 2009, 1:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Obama administration might conceivably decide to live with a nuclear-armed Iran. Israel does not enjoy that luxury. Now that Iran has got all the components for making a nuclear device at extremely short notice, as affirmed by US intelligence, Israel can no longer delay a decision on pre-emptive action.
The ... 
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September 13, 2009, 7:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Iranian sources disclose that Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are working on a wide-raging plan to replicate Iran's key nuclear installations in Venezuela, possibly in the framework of a new program there on the Iranian and North Korean models. Ahmadinejad seeks to keep them safe from possible ...
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September 11, 2009, 8:58 AM (GMT+02:00)
Barack Obama has been in the White House for nine months and Binyamin Netanyahu in the Israeli prime minister's office six months. Both have spent precious time batting the numbers of settlement apartments to and fro instead of taking resolute steps to thwart Iran's spectacular advances on the road to ...
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