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713 articles tagged "Iran"
DEBKAfile
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September 5, 2009, 12:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
US, Israel and four other governments are urgently discussing the release of intelligence that Iran is running covert military nuclear projects parallel to its civilian program after Mohammed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, withheld this data from his last report, debkafile's military and intelligence sources ...
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August 27, 2009, 9:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Last Thursday night, Aug. 20, debkafile first exposed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's defense minister Ahmadi Vadhidi as wanted by Interpol for the 1994 Buenos Aires atrocity, a massive bombing attack on the Jewish community center in the Argentine capital which left 84 people dead and hundreds wounded.
This story, instantly ... 
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August 25, 2009, 6:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his hard-line supporters are calling for opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi to be tried for sedition after he announced Saturday, Aug. 15, the formation of The Green Path of Hope movement to restore the people's stolen rights. debkafile's Iranian sources report that Ahmadinejad is trying ...
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August 24, 2009, 5:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
Friday night, June 12, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was already on his way to victory in Iran's turbulent presidential election although only the first votes had been counted. By Saturday morning, it was clear he had won a landslide for a second term, widening the gap with his closest rival opposition leader ...
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August 24, 2009, 5:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Millions of sympathizers around the world looked forward to seeing Iran's protest movement using the Internet for the first online coup in history. Instead, the Iranian Islamic regime turned the tables: Its Internet police, arguably the largest in the world, pushed "control," "halt," "delete" and "send" buttons to activate a ...
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August 19, 2009, 1:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
Exposed here the first time are the seven secret prisons where opponents to the Iranian regime are subjected to murder, rape, broken bones and other savage abuses. The infamous Kahrizak prison on the southern outskirts of Tehran was not shut down to conceal the atrocities perpetrated there as reported. Read ...
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August 13, 2009, 5:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
On Aug. 5, the day of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's inauguration as president, Tehran officials said they could not confirm or deny Iran was holding three American journalists detained on July 31 while crossing from Iraq into Iran on the Kurdistan border. According to debkafile's Iranian sources, Tehran is preparing ...
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August 6, 2009, 10:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
An unusual number of empty seats in the Iranian parliament greeted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's swearing-in for a second term as president Wednesday, Aug. 5, indicating a broad boycott by the opposition and their supporters. Outside, hundreds of protesters faced large contingents of riot police. Ahmadinejad criticized "foreign powers" for casting doubt ...
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July 26, 2009, 9:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources reveal that Iran is in the last stages of construction of a nuclear test site in the Kavir Lut desert between Tehran and its eastern border with Afghanistan. The work is managed by the Iranian experts invited to attend North Korea's nuclear test this year. ...
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July 26, 2009, 9:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran has posted a new package of "proposals" to the West in response to its offer of engagement on Tehran's nuclear activities. Foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said the "comprehensive and updated" package aims to prepare the ground for more "fluid interaction" with the West. "But we cannot speak of ...
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July 22, 2009, 11:40 AM (GMT+02:00)
Iran is racing ahead in mass production of the accurate two-stage 2,000-kilometer range Sejil II ballistic missile powered with solid fuel, debkafile's military and Iranian sources report. Israel has entered the arms race by stepping up production of Arrow anti-missile systems.
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July 21, 2009, 1:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
The former Iranian president, Hashemi Rafsanjani, broke his month-long silence on the violent street protests which erupted over allegations of fraud after Mahmoud Ahmadienjad's re-election on June 12.
In a tensely-awaited sermon at Tehran University, Friday, July 17, he called for the release of the hundreds of arrested protesters. The prominent ... 
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July 15, 2009, 12:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, driven by a thirst for revenge, is preparing a wave of show trials, public confessions and executions to crush the opposition which dared to refute the legitimacy of his election. The West, especially the Obama administration, hoping the bloody crackdown was over, can forget about re-engaging Tehran ...
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July 13, 2009, 9:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
Leaders of the industrialized nations failed to agree on tough measures, including sanctions, against Iran's drive for nuclear weapons in the first day of their three-day deliberations at the Italian town of l'Aquila, Wednesday, July 8. Russian opposition to condemning Iran left only an endorsement of the diplomatic track, which ...
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July 7, 2009, 3:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran and Israel are each thinking about using the fallout of the domestic unrest in Tehran for attacking the other: Iran to flex muscle, Israel to strike a looming nuclear menace.
In our latest issue, out last Friday, DEBKA-Net-Weekly weighed the chances of a clash. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly ... 
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July 6, 2009, 4:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's opposition leaders relied heavily on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and other social sites to orchestrate their street rallies and expose regime repression. They did not appreciate at first that Iranian intelligence Internet experts were manipulating their electronic communications to shoot them down.
The United States has been alerted to ... 
DEBKAfile
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July 2, 2009, 10:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struck back Saturday, June 27, barely 24 hours after US president Barack Obama poured scorn on him and warned that "direct dialogue or diplomacy with Iran" would be "affected by the events of the last several weeks."
This time, the Iranian president included Europe in ...
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June 30, 2009, 1:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKA-Net-Weekly's this week out Friday offered a short guide to the backstage rivalries at the top of the regime, together with their impact the extraordinary battle of wills in the streets of Tehran.
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June 26, 2009, 9:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
Seeking to revive his flagging protest movement, opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi scheduled a demonstration for Wednesday afternoon, June 24, outside the Iranian parliament building on Baharestan Square. According to eye witnesses, several hundred demonstrators turned up and were brutally dispersed by Iranian security forces and arrests made Some said ...
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June 25, 2009, 4:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
Monday, June 22, the influential Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani proposed a foreign ministry review of Iran's relations with Britain over its "interference in Iran's recent post-election unrest," according to state media.
A Foreign Office spokesman then announced: "The ongoing violence has had a significant impact on the families of ... |
