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September 25, 2007, 8:00 AM (GMT+02:00)
Angry protests and demonstrations challenge Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's admittance to America while he and his government deny the holocaust, threaten the United States and Israel, develop a nuclear weapon, send weapons to Iraq insurgents to kill US troops, foster terror and are guilty of harsh repressive practices at home.
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September 23, 2007, 2:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's suspect nuclear program is further polarizing the big powers.
As American and European officials discussed a third round of UN Security Council sanctions, Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, more pugnacious than ever, addressed a military parade Sat. Sept. 22 marking the 27th anniversary of the onset of the Iraq-Iran war of ...
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September 22, 2007, 7:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Deputy air force commander Mohammad Alawi said Wednesday that Iran has a plan to bomb Israel in the event of "possible foolishness" by "the Jewish state" in staging a military attack against the Islamic Republic. Iranian bombers can retaliate against Israeli soil, he said. "In addition to our missiles, whose ...
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September 22, 2007, 7:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources assert that Iran does not have as many as 600 Shehab-3 missiles capable of a simultaneous barrage - as threatened on an Iranian Web site Monday - nor sufficient launchers to fire that number. The threatening statement followed the French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner's warning ...
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September 17, 2007, 11:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
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September 8, 2007, 11:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
Thursday, Sept 6, Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will receive the heads of 10 Palestinian factions in Tehran, among them Hamas' Khaled Meshaal, Jihad Islami's Abdullah Shelah and, most important of all, Fatah's radical politburo chief Farouk Kadoumi.
debkafile's counter-terror sources report this will be the first time Hamas ...
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September 5, 2007, 7:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafiles sources: The Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's latest claim Sunday, Sept 2, that Iran's nuclear industry had 3,000 centrifuges up and running - and was "installing a new cascade every week" - means that Tehran has overcome the technical hitches which long held up self-production of the P2 ...
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September 4, 2007, 10:37 AM (GMT+02:00)
The minister was answering questions from listeners to the Israeli Broadcasting Service's Farsi program Monday night, Aug. 27. Avigdor Lieberman said Israel is extending aid to those opposition organizations which are proving effective. He is therefore the first member of the Israeli government to expose the clandestine war gaining ground ...
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August 28, 2007, 12:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
Mayor of Choman Abdul Wahid Gwany said they crossed in 10 places, traveling some 5 km into the mountain region and bombing villages as they drove. Some villagers were killed. debkafile adds: The apparent targets were Iranian Kurdish rebels, members of PJAK, who are reported holed up in ...
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August 21, 2007, 8:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
The RG commander Yahya Rahim Safavi said Wednesday that Iran's 2,000km range missiles (capable of reaching Israel) could now be remote controlled. debkafile's military sources interpret this as a reference to Shahab-3 missiles kept in hiding places, even possibly outside Iran, which can be operated at a distance ...
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August 12, 2007, 9:54 AM (GMT+02:00)
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Buoyed up by the triumphs of Hizballah's war offensive against Israel in 2006 and Hamas' takeover of Gaza, the clerical rulers of Tehran have invested so heavily in their expanding power structure across the region that a fiasco could push their regime ...
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August 7, 2007, 6:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
This is reported by a European diplomatic in Vienna. A US official told AP that Moscow is dragging its feet on commitments for activating the reactor to pressure Tehran into more compliance with UN Security Council demands on activities suspected of links to a weapons program.
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August 1, 2007, 2:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tehran and the Russian Rosoboronexport arms group are about to sign a mammoth arms deal for the sale to Tehran of 250 Su-30MKM warplanes and 20 IL-78 MKI fuel tankers. debkafile's military sources report Iran has stipulated delivery of the first aircraft before the end of 2007.
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July 25, 2007, 8:23 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Iranian president trumpeted Iran's intentions for the Middle East when he arrived in Damascus Thursday, July 19. debkafile's Middle East sources reveal that behind the braggadocio, his conversation with Iran's closest ally, Syrian president Bashar Assad, was acrimonious. In fact, he warned Assad he had better stop ...
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July 22, 2007, 10:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our Iranian and intelligence sources reveal that the Iranian president flew out of Damascus Thursday with this group saying: "I prefer cooler places but this region faces a torrid summer of victories."
The most urgent decision facing the Iran-Syrian alliance concerns Lebanon and how far they can go to get rid ... 
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July 18, 2007, 12:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei is still willing to give Tehran the benefit of the doubt, although he still cannot say for sure Tehran's nuclear program is peaceful or even half transparent. The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency hailed "as a way out of the crisis", Iran's belated permission ...
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July 14, 2007, 2:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
This week, Iran's soft-soap campaign on its nuclear program won valuable support from the heads of the international Atomic Energy Agency, even though the UN watchdog still cannot determine that Iran's nuclear activities are transparent or peaceful.
Even after listening for four years to Tehran's evasions, untruths and prevarications on its ... 
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July 9, 2007, 3:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Iran sources reveal that Fatah and Hamas representatives have launched secret talks to patch up their quarrel. Their first session took place in Stockholm Sunday, July 8, under the guiding hands of the Iranian and Saudi ambassadors.
Hamas sent operations chief Imad al Alami from Damascus to face ...
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July 9, 2007, 9:44 AM (GMT+02:00)
Six months ago, the five were taken into custody in Irbil, in northern Iraqi Kurdistan and charged with being Revolutionary Guards agents working with Iraqi insurgents. Iran insists they are diplomats. Iran's ambassador Hassan Kazemi-Qomi said the visit which lasted several hours was "a step forward and positive."
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July 7, 2007, 2:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
June 28, the Scottish Criminal Cases Commission granted former Libyan agent Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, serving a 27-year sentence, the right to appeal his conviction six years ago for planning the attack, saying the "applicant may have suffered a miscarriage of justice."
debkafile's counter-terror sources disclose the Scottish commission's ... |
