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February 3, 2009, 6:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's government spokesman is quoted as saying Saturday, Jan. 31 that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of Khomeini's overthrow of the shah that Iran's Islamic revolution was not limited to its borders. His response to the ...
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January 10, 2009, 11:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
The strategy the Islamic regime has charted for the new US president hinges on fanning tensions on Israel's northern and southern borders while putting a damper on the various Middle East peace initiatives. Syria was therefore discouraged from returning to its indirect peace track with Israel and Hamas ordered to ...
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December 30, 2008, 6:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's Red Crescent will send an aid shipment to the Gaza strip "in the face of the Israeli blockade," according to a state broadcast Friday. The cargo of 2,000 tonnes of food and medicines accompanied by 12 Iranian doctors will sail from Bandar Abbas, HQ of the Revolutionary Guards Navy, ...
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December 30, 2008, 1:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
The last DEBKA-Net-Weekly revealed for the first time a new decision by Islamic republic rulers to rethink the tempo of their nuclear armament program in the light of the Obama administration's promised engagement policy.
The issue out Friday, Dec. 26, 2008 carried this and more revelations. To subscribe to ... 
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December 28, 2008, 11:12 AM (GMT+02:00)
Hamas appealed to Tehran and Hizballah Thursday, Dec. 25, asking for Iran's support by threatening to intervene if Israel launched an attack on the Gaza Strip, debkafile's Iranian sources report.
Tehran did not to reject the SOS out of hand but inform Hamas that Iran was awaiting developments ... 
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December 24, 2008, 2:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Despite the efforts of US and Israeli leaders, Moscow is delivering the highly sophisticated air defense S-300 system to Iran for securing its nuclear and strategic sites against potential attack.
The RIA news agency confirmed this Wednesday night, Dec. 18. debkafile's military sources disclose the S-300 deliveries began two weeks ... 
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December 10, 2008, 9:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
Tehran claims the new Nasr-2 surface-to-surface missile was fired Dec. 6 during its six-day naval exercise from a warship in the Sea of Oman and destroyed a target 30 km away.
The games, launched with 60 warships last Tuesday were dubbed a war readiness exercise. They cover 50,000 square miles of ... 
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December 10, 2008, 7:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei, says five years of US and international efforts to rein in Iran's nuclear ambitions are a failure. Sanctions may have hardened the position of Iran. Yet Israel's leaders place their reliance on "the international community" and more sanctions.
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December 1, 2008, 9:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
Amid rising Iranian-Israel tensions, state prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi charged Tuesday, Nov. 25 that the three accused spies had been trained in Tel Aviv and three other Middle East countries "in assassinations, explosions, professional motorbike riding and working with special cameras, computers and satellites."
debkafile: The mounting spymania in ... 
Iran announces more than 5,000 centrifuges working, launches Kavosh-2 (Explorer-2) rocket into space
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November 29, 2008, 11:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
Minutes after launching a three-stage rocket into space Wednesday, Nov. 26, Iran's nuclear chief said Iran now had more than 5,000 centrifuges operating at its uranium enrichment plant, flatly defying UN resolutions.
debkafile's military sources report that this was the first time Iran had launched a three-stage rocket ... 
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November 27, 2008, 10:08 AM (GMT+02:00)
When Barack Obama is sworn in as US president on Jan. 21, 2009, Iran will have enough fuel for one A-bomb. The next Israeli prime minister after the Feb. 2009 poll will see Tehran doubling this capability. For years, world leaders vowed to keep nuclear weapons out of Iranian hands. ...
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November 25, 2008, 9:45 AM (GMT+02:00)
Friday, Nov. 21, Tehran denied the International Atomic Energy Agency's findings that it had enriched enough uranium to make its first nuclear bomb, while Damascus said the watchdog's report that the Syrian nuclear site bombed by Israel had the features of a reactor proved nothing. Inspections also found traces of ...
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November 24, 2008, 3:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile notes that Iran waited six days until Saturday, Nov. 22, before disclosing that Ali Ashtari, 45, was hanged on Nov. 17 after a revolutionary court in Tehran sentenced him on charges of spying for Israel.
Our Iranian and intelligence sources note that this and other disclosures were ... 
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November 24, 2008, 9:27 AM (GMT+02:00)
Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This alarming development is headlined by the New York Times and Bloomberg website ...
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November 22, 2008, 1:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tehran and Damascus are going all out to get their hooks into Lebanon's Christian politicians and wean them away from their' traditional ties with the West. President Michel Suleiman this week accepted an Iranian invitation to visit Tehran this month, while another Lebanese Christian leader, Hizballah's ally Gen. Michel Aoun, ...
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November 15, 2008, 9:58 AM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's rulers calculate that the more trouble they stir up, the sooner incoming US president Barack Obama will come running to Tehran to open a pre-inauguration back-door channel. Iranian agents and Hizballah are recruiting Palestinian militias in Lebanon for cross-border terrorist attacks in Israel.
Read more about this challenge for the ... 
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November 6, 2008, 2:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
This intelligence assessment, disclosed to AP by a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), indicates that the Iranians are testing ways of using nuclear waste from the Bushehr reactor, which the Russians have pledged to finish by the end of the year or March, 2009, at latest.
Moscow ... 
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November 2, 2008, 9:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's naval chief Adm. Habibollah Sayyari told state radio Tuesday, Oct,.28, that the base could be used to block the entry of any "enemy" into the Persian Gulf.
The new base is in the port town of Jask on Iran's southeastern coast opposite the point where the Gulf of Oman flows ...
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October 28, 2008, 10:35 AM (GMT+02:00)
Iran has developed a series of optional plans for pre-emptively attacking Israel, as revealed in the latest DEBKA-Net-Weekly. One is the launch of a "floating dirty bomb."
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October 27, 2008, 11:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
During a visit to Bahrain, Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani said Wednesday, Oct. 22, that Tehran would prefer Democratic senator Barack Obama in the White House next year. He also ruled out any US attack on his country.
debkafile's Iranian sources note that Larijani, one of the most ... |
