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98 articles tagged "US-Iran"
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May 12, 2007, 12:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
US Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Riyadh Sat. May 12, with a full caseload for his talks with Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz . He is seeking coordination with the Saudis in good time for the approaching winding-down of US military forces in Iraq. Cheney will also clinch the ...
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April 9, 2007, 6:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
No attempt was made to conceal the visit a cluster of top US brass paid April 4 to American marine units aboard the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Baatan (LHD 5) and other vessels of the strike group deployed in the Persian Gulf. In fact they were happy to answer ...
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February 5, 2007, 4:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Last week, French president Jacques Chirac said he was not concerned about the danger of Iran having "...one or perhaps a second bomb..." In a statement he retracted a day later, he said it would be an act of self-destruction for Iran to use a nuclear weapon against another country. ...
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January 25, 2007, 10:36 AM (GMT+02:00)
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US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad and State department spokesman Sean McCormack said the US would soon present evidence of Iran's hand in the violence besetting Iraq. The spoke as US-Iran military tensions over Iraq continued to rise. The ambassador stressed too ... 
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December 10, 2006, 8:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's prime minister Ehud Olmert embarks on a European tour this week that takes him first to Rome and the Vatican, then to Berlin Tuesday, Dec. 12.
In an interview with the German Der Spiegel, Saturday Dec. 9, he expressed the hope that the international community would take firmer action ... 
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October 30, 2006, 11:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
Hundreds of US and allied war ships foregathered in the strategic seas of the Middle East and India in the last days of October 2006 for two primary missions: To prepare for a US-led military strike against Iran which has stepped up its uranium enrichment program with a second centrifuge ...
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September 20, 2006, 5:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
While the leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement nations were making speeches at the 14th conference of their movement in Havana in mid-September, three groups of experts were off in a well-guarded corner next door to talk about matters far from the conference's main theme of how to develop backward economies ...
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September 4, 2006, 11:37 AM (GMT+02:00)
The extraordinary buildup of European naval and military strength in and around Lebanon's shores is way out of proportion for the task the European contingents of expanded UNIFIL have undertaken: to create a buffer between Israel and Hizballah.
Close investigation by debkafile's military and intelligence sources discloses that ... 
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August 22, 2006, 7:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
Apparently out of the blue, a clutch of Israeli ministers - Amir Peretz, defense, Tzipi Livni, foreign affairs and Avi Dichter, internal security - have evinced a burning desire to talk peace with Syrian president Bashar Assad and even a willingness to discuss handing over the Golan captured in the ...
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June 5, 2006, 8:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Gulf sources suspect that the tough talk indicates that a secret dialogue is afoot somewhere in the world and has reached the stage of muscle-flexing, or even a point of decision. These same sources did confirm the existence of bilateral negotiations three months ago in Washington and ...
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June 1, 2006, 2:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
Condoleezza Rice spoke the language the European nations, Russia and China wanted to hear before she met their representatives in Vienna Thursday, June 1, to discuss their incentives package for cajoling Iran into abandoning its proscribed nuclear activities. The US secretary of state said the US was willing to join ...
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May 20, 2006, 2:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Bush administration accuses the Europeans of going behind America's back to assemble an apparently innocuous proposal which is rife with hidden dangers.
In the first place, not one, but several light water reactors are on offer. In the second, Iran will get an almost unlimited supply of fuel rods containing ...
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April 26, 2006, 3:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
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Tehran was undaunted when US officials confronted its negotiators in secret talks with the steps taken by Saudi Arabia and Egypt to launch their own nuclear weapons programs as a deterrent to the Iranian threat. Iran's leaders countered the prospect of a ... 
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April 11, 2006, 3:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
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Little explanation - or even speculation - has been forthcoming for the abrupt decision by US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad to call off the Baghdad talks he was due to lead for Washington with an Iranian delegation on Saturday, April 8. ... 
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April 3, 2006, 2:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and UK foreign and UK foreign secretary Jack Straw embarked on an intense two-day effort to help put an Iraqi unity government in place. Before leaving Baghdad Monday, April 3, Rice said: "It is not our job to choose Iraq's prime minister. He can ...
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October 29, 2005, 10:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's outrageous statements were not just the empty rhetoric of an inexperienced politician. They were backed up by solid action.
According to debkafile's counter-terror sources, Iranian intelligence shells out a fee of $50,000 and 80,000 to Sunni hit squads in central and western Iraq for every attack ... 
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June 25, 2005, 8:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
A virtual nobody on Iran's national scene, Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 49, was picked by Iran's radical Islamic leaders and swung ahead of the presidential race to deal "the heaviest psychological blow to Iran's enemies." Those words were uttered by the new president in his first post-election statement Saturday, June ...
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June 14, 2005, 2:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
On the march against the Tehran regime since April, the ethnic Arab rebels of Iran's southwest province of Khuzestan have for the first time struck an Iranian oil target. This attack, revealed here by debkafile's Exclusive Iranian sources, took place Wednesday, June 8. The guerrillas struck the new ...
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November 19, 2004, 9:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
No one familiar with Iran's record of broken promises on its hidden nuclear weapons program will be surprised by the allegations leveled against Tehran this week. On Wednesday, November 17, outgoing US secretary of state Colin Powell said to reporters during a South American tour: US has intelligence that Iran ...
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February 20, 2004, 5:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
Little credence is given in Tehran to the official claim that the colossal train explosion which killed at least 300 people and struck five villages in the northeast Khorassan province Wednesday, February 18, was caused by colliding wagons carrying industrial chemicals, fertilizers, diesel fuel and cotton. Such flammable freights are ...
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