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DEBKAfile
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March 7, 2007, 8:27 AM (GMT+02:00)
The last issue (for subscribers) out Friday March 2 revealed progress on this track as evinced by US participation in the Baghdad neighbors' conference on March 10 and the sudden Iranian presidential visit to Riyadh. Further developments will be traced in the next issue. Don't miss it.
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March 2, 2007, 10:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's dep. defense minister for eight years up until 2005 - and before that a prominent Revolutionary Guards General, Ali Reza Asgari, 63, has not been seen since his disappearance in mysterious circumstances in Istanbul on Feb. 7.
The missing general has been identified as the officer in charge of Iranian ...
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February 28, 2007, 11:03 AM (GMT+02:00)
An Iranian military spokesman said the troops were "on a mission to control the region in northwest Iran" near the Turkish border. The Party of Free Life of Kurdistan, an Iranian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), claimed it shot down the helicopter.
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February 26, 2007, 12:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
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The military, naval, air and amphibious strength the US has built up around Iranian shores speaks louder than words. Iran has countered that signal by placing its army and the elite Revolutionary Guards Corps on full war footing since September 2006. Israel, the ... 
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February 23, 2007, 1:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's interior minister Mostafa Pur-Mohammadi, speaking over a domestic TV channel, also charged the three services with subversive activities in Iranian Khuzestan, Kurdistan and Azerbaijan.
debkafile reports this was the first time an Iranian official accused Israeli intelligence of "terrorist activity" inside the country. Israeli security sources take this ...
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February 18, 2007, 9:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
This was reported by the Iranian news agency Fars after Iranian police clashed with armed Sunni rebels in Zahedan in southeastern Iran. Wednesday, a car bomb killed 11 Revolutionary Guards in the town, claimed by the Balochi Sunni group Jundallah. An informed source in Tehran said the relevant documents, photographs ...
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February 18, 2007, 6:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our intelligence sources reveal that Monday, Feb. 12, the six-point proposal secret Swiss emissaries delivered to the Iranian government ten days ago was accepted.
Its six points are revealed here for the first time: 1. Iran will be allowed to produce a predetermined quota of enriched uranium against its pledge not ... 
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February 17, 2007, 5:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice stopped off in Baghdad Sat. Feb. 17, for an unscheduled visit, interrupting the journey she was making to Jerusalem for a fresh push to Israel-Palestinian diplomacy. She felt the need to beat up a semblance of momentum on one other US Middle East ...
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February 17, 2007, 11:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile Exclusive: Iran sends shoulder-borne QW-1 anti-air missiles to Iraqi Sunni insurgents and Hizballah to shoot down US and Israeli helicopters.
Tehran has begun supplying Iraqi insurgents and Lebanese Hizballah forces with home-made QW-1 shoulder-carried missiles copied from Chinese anti-air missiles to maximize their threat to US and Israeli ...
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February 17, 2007, 11:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
The assailants, believed to be Balochi nationalists, arrived on the scene in a car and escaped on motorcycles hidden by the wayside. Zahedan is the capital of the restive, mostly Sunni Muslim Balochistan, which lies close to the Pakistani and Afghan borders.
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February 17, 2007, 11:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
Fearing his Mehdi Amy militia would be targeted, debkafile also reports Sadr took with him its top commander Abbas Kufi and his two deputies, Omar Mohayfun and Hazar Maliki. They went over from Iraq to Iran early this week.
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February 5, 2007, 9:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
In Tehran this week, Russian security chief Igor Ivanov promised the work would go forward and be completed on schedule in September, 2007. He also pledged that fuel that could double for the manufacture of nuclear weapons, held back till now, would be released no later than March.
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February 1, 2007, 5:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
A ballistic missile converted to a space launcher would pose a greater military threat to Israel than the spy satellite it launched. If that missile can deliver 300 kg into earth orbit, it can drop more than 300 kg anywhere in the world. Israel's anti-missile defenses are not at present ...
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January 28, 2007, 1:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran is closer than ever before to the launch of a spy satellite by a BM25 ballistic missile, 18 of which were purchased from North Korea, notwithstanding Pyongyang's denials of aid to Iran's nuclear program. Allaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of the Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy commission, said last ...
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January 27, 2007, 8:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, said Iran expects to start installing thousands of centrifuges in an underground facility next month. This would pave the way to large-scale uranium enrichment, a step towards making nuclear weapons.
Tehran Friday ... 
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January 25, 2007, 5:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
The British paper, quoting a senior European source, reports that North Korea is helping Iran prepare an underground nuclear test similar to the one Pyongyang carried out last October 9. In his State of the Union speech Wednesday, Jan. 23, US president George Bush said: "The United Nations has imposed ...
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January 15, 2007, 4:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
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The Lebanon war and a fistful of Iranian petrodollars have impelled Syrian president Bashar Asad to haul his armed forces into the present. DEBKA-Net-Weekly 284 of Jan. 5, 207, revealed his latest acquisition: the sophisticated Russian S-300PMU2 FAVORIT air defense system, ... 
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December 21, 2006, 8:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
Publication of results was halted after only one-tenth of the votes had been counted in Tehran 60 hours after balloting. The president's followers, backed by Revolutionary Guards, had stormed the election committees. They used threats and harassment to force the counters to falsify the results and reverse the president's opponents' ...
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December 18, 2006, 9:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
The results of Iran's elections for local councils and the powerful Assembly of Experts have been tensely awaited as the first test of the president's popularity since he took office last year.
debkafile's Tehran sources report that his followers, seeing which way the wind was blowing, took matters ...
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December 13, 2006, 5:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Iranian sources report the Islamic Republic plans an extensive campaign to justify its nuclear program, based on Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert's statement in Berlin Monday, Dec. 11, listing Israel with the world's nuclear powers. Tehran also hopes to rebut the universal revulsion stirred by the Holocaust ...
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