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DEBKAfile
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July 26, 2008, 3:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
This assessment was reported by Israeli national radio Saturday overnight quoting a high-placed "security-political" official.
The source predicted that President George W. Bush would order Iran attacked between the November 4 presidential election and his exit from the White House in January. 
DEBKAfile
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July 26, 2008, 12:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain told an Israeli Channel Two TV interviewer Monday, July 21, that he is in favor of communications with Iran at different levels, but would object to face-to-face talks with [president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad who has publicly dedicated himself to destroying Israel.
The Republican senator spoke shortly ... 
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July 25, 2008, 9:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama asserted he would bring "big sticks and big carrots" to make Iran stand down on its nuclear program, but take no option off the table.
Answering reporters' questions in the missile-battered southern town of Sderot, July 23, Obama stressed that preventing Iran acquiring a ... 
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July 25, 2008, 9:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Fox News he is convinced the Iranians are seeking to building an atomic bomb. He stressed the US had the capacity and the reserves to attack Iran as a last resort
debkafile's Washington sources stressed the special ... 
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July 25, 2008, 9:26 AM (GMT+02:00)
The US Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama rose before dawn Thursday, July 24, for a stop at the holiest Jewish shrine to round off his Middle East tour. After bowing his head in prayer, he observed the custom of placing a small note in a crevice of the Western Wall ...
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July 21, 2008, 10:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
By sending US Under Secretary of State William Burns to European-Iranian talks in Geneva Saturday, July 19, the Bush administration makes official the secret diplomatic track afoot between Washington and Tehran, first disclosed by DEBKA-Net-Weekly on June 27.
Our US sources confirm that this step distances the Bush administration ... 
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July 20, 2008, 8:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he is convinced the Iranians are seeking to building an atomic bomb, which is "a very destabilizing possibility in that part of the world." He stressed the US had the capacity and the reserves to attack Iran as ...
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July 20, 2008, 11:56 AM (GMT+02:00)
The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency has notified Congress of its wish to sell Israel shore-hugging combat ships, spare parts, software and other goods and services worth $1.9 billion. Israel has requested the littoral combat ships to patrol its shores, mainly from Lockheed Martin, General Dynamis and Raytheon. The agency ...
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July 19, 2008, 6:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Air Force Lt. Gen. Trey Obering, director of the Missile Defense Agency told reporters July 16 he believes Iran now has a missile with a range of 1,250 miles (2,011 km), but did not say whether the weapon had been test-fired. debkafile reports Israel is well within this ...
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July 15, 2008, 10:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Jerusalem-based intelligence-reporting agency, debkafile said oil prices suddenly slumped Tuesday, July 8 under the impact of the secret American-Iranian talks embarked on last month to solve burning issues by diplomatic engagement.
These talks between the US and Iranian delegations, representing President George W. Bush and Iranian supreme ruler ... 
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July 12, 2008, 11:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
On June 27, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 354 first revealed the existence of secret US-Iranian diplomatic ad hoc understandings, including a $150 ceiling on the price of oil, reached under the cover of leaked "reports" alleging the US or Israel were preparing to attack Iran's nuclear installations. But in case those understandings ...
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July 12, 2008, 9:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
It was obvious that US president George W. Bush's denunciation of those who would negotiate with "terrorists and radicals" had put the Democratic candidate, Senator Barack Obama, on the spot. Minutes after the words had been spoken on Thursday, May 16, in a special 60th anniversary session of the Israeli ...
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July 10, 2008, 12:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources reveal that, during his two-day visit to Israel, Adm. Mike Mullen Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, showed interest in the Israel Aviations Industries' long-range Heron unmanned aerial vehicles, which support IDF's counter-terror and counter-missile operations in the Gaza Strip.
The demonstration took place ...
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July 7, 2008, 9:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff said Wednesday, July 2, that opening up a third front by a war on Iran would be "extremely stressful" for the US military, but the US would not let Iran block the Strait of Hormuz.
DEBKAfile
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July 2, 2008, 8:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
At a media briefing in Bahrain Monday, June 30, US Vice-Admiral Kevin Cosgriff warned that the United States and its allies would not allow Iran to hamper shipping in the Gulf and close the Strait of Hormuz which carries oil from the world's largest oil exporting region.
The US fleet commander ... 
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July 1, 2008, 8:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
Visiting Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen met Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi in informal circumstances in Jerusalem Saturday, June 28. Was this meeting another portent of an impending US-Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear sites? Or was Mullen consigned to hold Israel ...
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June 29, 2008, 9:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Prime minister Stephen Harper said Canada has every reason to expect the follow-conference to be a repeat of the Durban I which purported to combat racism. Addressing an Ottawa ceremony awarding him the B'nai B'rith Gold Medallion for humanitarianism, Harmer condemned Zimbabwe's election Friday an "ugly perversion of democracy" and ...
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June 29, 2008, 9:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Washington sources, report that by the dramatic step of establishing a US interests section in Tehran, 27 years after relations were severed with the Revolutionary Republic, the Bush administration would hope to wash its hands of any Israeli plan to strike Iran's nuclear sites this year.
The ... 
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June 23, 2008, 11:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
The US Democratic presidential contender made this comment about the reported Israeli air rehearsal for a possible attack on Iran: "Without access to the actual detailed intelligence, I want to be careful about characterizing what was done and whether it was appropriate or not." But, said Senator Barack Obama, the ...
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June 23, 2008, 11:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday night, May 11, the Israeli army was poised to strike Hizballah. The Shiite militia was winding up its takeover of West Beirut and battling pro-government forces in the North. When he opened the regular cabinet meeting Sunday, May 11, prime minister Ehud Olmert had already received the go-ahead from ...
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