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712 articles tagged "Iran"
DEBKAfile
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June 24, 2008, 9:13 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Iranian sources report that Iran's top leaders held a special meeting in Tehran Thursday, June 19, hours after the Gaza ceasefire went into force. They congratulated themselves for achieving their second base on a Mediterranean shore after winning control of Lebanon through Hizballah's takeover of Beirut and ...
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June 21, 2008, 11:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
This was revealed by DEBKA-Net-Weekly 351 on May 30 - and confirmed Sunday, June 15, by the former UN weapons inspector, David Albright. He reported that designs for a nuclear device small enough to fit into a ballistic missile had been found on computers belonging to the rogue Pakistani ...
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June 16, 2008, 9:49 AM (GMT+02:00)
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Iran jumped in with gusto to meet Sudan president Omar al-Bashir's application for a military package including arms and training of his army. The application was received after the horrendous Darfur tragedy and Khartoum's backing for Chad rebels finally convinced Sudan's traditional ...
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June 7, 2008, 11:37 AM (GMT+02:00)
The 35-member Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board is discussing the latest report from its director Mohammed ElBaradei which asserts that Iran is hiding work with possible military nuclear dimensions.
Yet, according to debkafile's political sources, the Israeli government - in disarray over corruption disclosures against prime minister Ehud Olmert ... 
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June 5, 2008, 5:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources reveal that the joint Iranian-Syrian missile command - incorporated in a new mutual defense treaty signed during Syrian defense minister Hassan Turkmani's Tehran visit last week - has two attachments: Hizballah's missile arsenal in Lebanon and the Palestinian Hamas-Jihad Islami missile build-up in the Gaza ...
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June 2, 2008, 1:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
The International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna based its new and damning findings partly on 18 intelligence documents submitted by the United States, and now accuse Tehran of willful lack of cooperation. Iran dismissed the documents as forged or fabricated.
debkafile reports that the documents came from materials contained ... 
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May 26, 2008, 11:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
"Iran has got to be very high on that list," said a senior aide ahead of the talks US Vice President Dick Cheney will hold during his 10-day tour of the Middle East and Turkey, which began Monday, March 17 in Iraq.
Singling out Oman, the aide noted that the US ...
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May 14, 2008, 8:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
Our next issue offers an exclusive account of Tehran's military preparations for an American military strike - coupled with Hizballah's preparedness to hit Israel
Don't miss this and more information-packed revelations in the next DEBKA-Net-Weekly issue out Friday. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly click DEBKA-Net-Weekly.com?ref=001">HERE. 
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May 3, 2008, 9:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
While Syrian president Bashar Assad talked about an exchange of messages with Israel through a third party - Turkey and Norway - Sunday, April 21, elsewhere in Damascus, Syrian and Iranian intelligence officers were meeting secretly with Hamas leaders and promising them every support for stepped up rejectionist violence.
In ... 
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May 3, 2008, 9:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
Certain prominent Americans have undertaken secret colloquy with Tehran and may be preparing to go public and make it official, with the administration's blessing.
debkafile's Washington sources name them as Thomas R. Pickering, former ambassador to Moscow, the UN and Israel, William Luers, former envoy to Venezuela and the ... 
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April 28, 2008, 9:18 AM (GMT+02:00)
During his 2-day visit to Baghdad, March 2-3, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Iraqi hosts did a good job of ignoring the ubiquitous US military presence in Iraq - except for the Iranian president's ritual anti-American blast. His welcome by Iraqi president, the Kurdish Jalal Talabani, and Shiite prime minister Nouri ...
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April 14, 2008, 1:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
In his most provocative anti-US speech to date, Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad raised doubts about whether al Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001 attack on New York actually took place. He was addressing Iran's Nuclear Technology day, April 8, debkafile's Iranian sources report.
Announcing earlier that Iran had begun installing ... 
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April 11, 2008, 8:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to British media, the US is set to attack Iranian military facilities. debkafile's military sources add that the USS Abraham Lincoln Strike Force is heading for the Persian Gulf.
War tensions in the Middle East have shot up - not only over the signals flashing between Syria, ... 
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April 8, 2008, 9:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Tuesday, April 8, that the work is taking place at Iran's uranium enrichment plant in Natanz. The announcement marked Iran's Atom Day celebrations.
It defies UN demands to halt enrichment and three sets of international sanctions to deter Tehran from producing weapons-grade uranium. Iran already has about 3,000 ...
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April 8, 2008, 11:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Iranian sources report that Tehran's response to Israeli Infrastructure minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer's warning that a Tehran attack on Israel would call forth a response that "will devastate Iran" is expected to be incorporated in president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech Tuesday on the occasion of Iranian Atom Day.
Israeli intelligence ... 
DEBKAfile
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April 3, 2008, 3:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
After Russia, China and Libya froze arms sales to Sudan over the horrors of Darfur, Tehran stepped in last month with a string of military pacts signed on March 8 by Iran's defense minister Gen. Mostafa Mohammad Majjar and his Sudanese counterpart, Gen. Abdul Rahim Mohammad Hussein.
For Sudan, they open ... 
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April 1, 2008, 11:56 AM (GMT+02:00)
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US defense secretary Robert Gates' unannounced visit to Baghdad Monday, Feb. 11, was accompanied by two suicide bombings and a strike by the Sunni Awakening Councils, in which the US army has set great store for sustained security across Iraq. DEBKA-Net-Weekly's ... 
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March 19, 2008, 2:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tehran is bent on avenging the death of its top terror tactician Imad Mughniyeh who was struck down by a bomb planted in his car in Damascus Tuesday, Feb. 13. Even before the high-ranking Iranian military investigation team, headed by Gen. Ghassem Soleimani, chief of the IRGC's al Qods Brigades, ...
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March 17, 2008, 2:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reports: The opposition "reformist" factions can hope for 30 seats at best in the 290-member legislature, after the unelected Council for the Preservation of the Constitution barred some 1,700 of their candidates. This left some of Iran's 30 provinces with no contenders.
Dominated by Revolutionary Guards ex-officers, Iran's ... 
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March 8, 2008, 9:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Washington and Tehran sources report that a quid pro quo is taking shape between the US and Iran: A nuclear deal on the lines of the North Korea's status in return for Tehran's help for consolidating American gains in Iraq.
The Iranians are counting on the latest ... |
