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DEBKAfile
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December 3, 2007, 11:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
In a radical about-face, White House officials suddenly "discovered" Monday, Dec. 3, that Iran had halted it nuclear weapons program four years ago, but has continued to enrich uranium and could have enough material to build a bomb between 2010 and 2015. This "discovery" appeared in the latest National Intelligence ...
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December 2, 2007, 9:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our military sources report the Iranian Navy plans to deploy two submarine fleets - mini-subs in Persian Gulf waters for attacks on US shipping and Gulf oil facilities, and the Kilo class sub of Russian, Chinese and Iranian manufacture, for long-range targets in the Mediterranean, such as the US Sixth ...
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November 30, 2007, 12:33 AM (GMT+02:00)
Army naval commander Adm. Habib Sayyari announced: "A home-made destroyer called Jamaran and a home-made submarine of the Ghadir class will launch operations Nov. 28." He also claimed the production of missile-launching PT boats. Sayyari stressed Iran's navy is "in full control over the Sea of Oman, the Persian Gulf ...
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November 27, 2007, 1:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
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debkafile's military sources report the Iranian Navy is in the process of deploying two submarine fleets - mini-subs in Persian Gulf waters for attacks on US shipping and Gulf oil facilities, and the long-range Kilo class sub of Russian, Chinese ...
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November 24, 2007, 8:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Data reaching the US and Israel indicate that the boast made by Iranian president Ahmadinejad - and confirmed by the IAEA - that Tehran has 3,000 working centrifuges for uranium enrichment masks the real figure, which most likely tops 5,000 or is even close to 7,000 working machines.
Therefore, even if ... 
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November 19, 2007, 2:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Independent intelligence, military and scientific circles strongly suspect that Iran is a lot closer to a nuclear bomb than officials in the US, West Europe and Israel are ready to surmise in public. debkafile's sources report that this suspicion was strengthened by the discoveries made in Syria as ...
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November 16, 2007, 11:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's foreign ministry announced that the director of the international nuclear watchdog Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei wished to schedule a visit to Iran to see Iranian officials before releasing his report Wednesday or Thursday. His request was rejected. Iran said the date for his visit would be announced only after an ...
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November 12, 2007, 11:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
President George W. Bush is developing a new strategy for tackling Iran's determined pursuit of a nuclear weapons program. He sounded out French president Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on his new ideas when they came over separately for talks in the last few days.
He is also ... 
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November 11, 2007, 6:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
This announcement Wednesday Nov. 7 by the Iranian president at a rally in the northeastern city of Birjand means, according to scientists, that Iran can in ideal conditions produce an atom bomb in one year's time.
debkafile's Iranian sources reveal that that a new Iranian air base was inaugurated ... 
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November 11, 2007, 11:31 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Interpol general assembly meeting in Marrakech, Morocco tagged all six as wanted for extradition in connection with the attack which leveled the seven-story Jewish center in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and shocking the 200,000 strong Argentine Jewish community. Thirteen years later, there has not been a single conviction.
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November 8, 2007, 10:36 AM (GMT+02:00)
The exercise starting on Nov. 2, followed a statement by Iranian Gen. Al;I Fahdavi on Oct. 29, that the Revolutionary Guards Naval forces under his command are ready and able to strike at oil export traffic heading out of the Gulf region. On Nov 2, Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman Hamad ...
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November 5, 2007, 1:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Taking part in the American Persian Gulf exercise in progress since Nov. 2 are the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, its strike force and two smaller helicopter carriers, the USS Wasp and USS Kearsage, which are marine amphibian assault craft. Commander Jay Chambers, who also heads the combined 59th Task ...
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October 25, 2007, 11:56 AM (GMT+02:00)
The letters, according to debkafile's Iranian sources, have been posted to Jewish families in Tehran (where the community numbers some 13,000), Isfahan (under 2,000) and Shiraz (some 4,000). They are captioned: Danger! Danger! Danger! and tell recipients to try and reach the West with all possible speed. Iranian ...
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October 24, 2007, 8:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Iran sources report that Monday, Oct. 22, saw riotous student demonstrations lambasting president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in person at several universities across Iran including Amir Kabir in Tehran and Shahroud university. They are expected to continue.
He flew out early Tuesday, canceling a visit to the Armenian monument in ...
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October 21, 2007, 11:12 AM (GMT+02:00)
Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky said Wednesday "without equivocation and it is our deep conviction founded on real knowledge" that Iran will not have the capacity to create intercontinental missiles in the near or medium future. He admitted that the US has the opposite opinion. debkafile adds: Israel shares the ...
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October 20, 2007, 2:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has laid down the gauntlet.
Having prevailed over the more pragmatic elements of the Islamic Republican regime headed by supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, he and his Revolutionary Guards are challenging the United States to do its worst. Saturday, Oct. 20, the fire-eating president succeeded in removing the ... 
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October 15, 2007, 7:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a sermon marking Eid al Fitr in Tehran Saturday, ignored Mahmoud Abbas, when he said the Palestinians themselves are not participating. Instead, as the crowd chanted "Death to American!" and "Death to Israel," he praised Hamas for making resistance its slogan.
Lead Palestinian negotiator former PM Ahmed ...
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October 13, 2007, 12:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
In December, at another Iranian university students disrupted is speech and burned his picture. Ahmadinejad is accused of clamping down on dissent in Iranian campuses.
In his latest shocker, Ahmadinejad said Friday: Zionists should be relocated in Europe or "big lands like Canada and Alaska." On al Qods day, which ... 
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October 3, 2007, 8:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
The latest round of the international campaign against Iran's covert nuclear activities is coming out of Paris, debkafile's intelligence sources report. A statement by President Nicolas Sarkozy Thursday, Sept. 27 that he does not believe Iran's program is peaceful was followed by a press conference at which the ...
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September 30, 2007, 9:46 AM (GMT+02:00)
The official announcer said the weapon put US bases in the Middle East and Israel within reach, as a large slogan was displayed from supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: "The Iranian nation is ready to bring any oppressive power to its knees."
debkafile's military sources report that Tehran used ... |
