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727 articles tagged "Iran"
DEBKAfile
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March 31, 2009, 6:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's AMAN military intelligence director, Maj. Amos Yadlin updated the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee on the state of Iran's nuclear progress Wednesday, March 25. He reported that although Iran is only months away from a capacity to make a nuclear bomb and has attained a warhead capability, Tehran ...
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March 29, 2009, 10:13 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources: Sudanese and Egyptian security officials reported Tuesday, March 24, the day Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir arrived in Cairo, that in January, US Air Force AC 130H gunships taking off from bases in Djibouti destroyed a 17-truck clandestine convoy carrying smuggled arms as it travelled through ...
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March 26, 2009, 7:13 AM (GMT+02:00)
"We will watch and we will judge (the new U.S. administration) ... You change, our behavior will change," said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme ruler in the northeastern city of Mashhad March 21 to thousands of worshippers, two days after US president Barack Obama offered a new beginning of diplomatic ...
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March 16, 2009, 9:05 AM (GMT+02:00)
On March 4, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy published a paper with two important disclosures:
Iran has enough fissile material available for making up to 50 nuclear bombs and Tehran can go from low enriched uranium to weapons-grade uranium in a relative brief period of time, perhaps a year ... 
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March 9, 2009, 9:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
Leading a concentrated outpouring of venomous hate, Iran's supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared Wednesday, March 4, that President Barack Obama is pursuing the same "wrong path" as his predecessor in supporting Israel - "a cancerous tumor" - and he saw no change.
This was Tehran's response to the moderate language ... 
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March 7, 2009, 10:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's counter-terror sources that Gaza's Hamas strongman Mahmoud A-Zahar was given an Israeli safe passage to travel from Gaza to Cairo in mid-February.
He made straight for Damascus and Tuesday, March 3, was flown to Tehran to deliver the keynote speech at a conference called by the Islamic ... 
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March 4, 2009, 11:31 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Friday sermon delivered by former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rasanjani in Tehran on Feb. 27 offered US president Barack Obama a lure and a catch, condemned Israel and threatened Russia.
Indicating Israel, he said: "'You are planting a false notion in public minds." Addressing the Russians, he said bluntly that ...
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February 27, 2009, 10:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signed a series of accords with Djibouti president Ismail Omar Guelle Tuesday, Feb. 24, establishing technical and vocational centers in the East African state and supporting development projects. A new protocol opened an Iranian credit line for Djibouti, whose president commended the cooperation between two nations ...
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February 25, 2009, 1:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKA-Net-Weekly reveals the terms of the accord US president Barack Obama has secretly forged with Saudi King Abdullah and the ways in which they plan to work together in the Muslim world, the Persian Gulf and the Middle East.
Moscow in contrast is deepening its ties with Tehran. The implications of ... 
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February 25, 2009, 10:45 AM (GMT+02:00)
The White House expressed concern Friday, Feb. 20, about a new International Atomic Energy Agency report that said Iran recently understated how much uranium it had enriched. The nuclear watchdog reported Thursday, Feb. 19, that Iran had stocked more than one tonne of low enriched uranium hexafluoride at Natanz alone. ...
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February 22, 2009, 10:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iranian media this week offered a glimpse into the purported double life of an Iranian-born American physician alleging he was a secret bio-weapons scientist. They reported that Dr. Noah McKay (formerly Nasser Talebzadeh Ordoubadi) died in mysterious circumstance Saturday, Feb. 14 aged 53, vaguely accusing "intelligence agencies" of causing his ...
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February 22, 2009, 8:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that defense minister Mostafa Najar and his Russian counterpart Anatoly Serdyukov are making good progress in the talks they began Tuesday, Feb. 17 on the sale of advanced S-300 ground-to-air missiles to Iran. Both sides agreed it was essential to provide Iran's Bushehr reactor ...
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February 18, 2009, 1:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that Iran's defense minister Mostafa Najar travels to Moscow Monday, Feb. 16 to tie up the last ends of Tehran's purchase of a brigade of advanced Russian S-300 air defense missiles to guard its nuclear sites.
Their acquisition would make an air attack on Iran's ... 
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February 9, 2009, 6:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
The launch of Omid (Hope), Iran's first home-made satellite into orbit early Tuesday, Feb. 3, is a breakthrough demonstrating the Islamic Republic has managed to develop long-range, three-stage, solid fuel ballistic rockets capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
debkafile's Iranian sources stress that the credit for this feat belongs to ...
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February 3, 2009, 6:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's government spokesman is quoted as saying Saturday, Jan. 31 that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of Khomeini's overthrow of the shah that Iran's Islamic revolution was not limited to its borders. His response to the ...
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January 10, 2009, 11:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
The strategy the Islamic regime has charted for the new US president hinges on fanning tensions on Israel's northern and southern borders while putting a damper on the various Middle East peace initiatives. Syria was therefore discouraged from returning to its indirect peace track with Israel and Hamas ordered to ...
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December 30, 2008, 6:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's Red Crescent will send an aid shipment to the Gaza strip "in the face of the Israeli blockade," according to a state broadcast Friday. The cargo of 2,000 tonnes of food and medicines accompanied by 12 Iranian doctors will sail from Bandar Abbas, HQ of the Revolutionary Guards Navy, ...
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December 30, 2008, 1:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
The last DEBKA-Net-Weekly revealed for the first time a new decision by Islamic republic rulers to rethink the tempo of their nuclear armament program in the light of the Obama administration's promised engagement policy.
The issue out Friday, Dec. 26, 2008 carried this and more revelations. To subscribe to ... 
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December 28, 2008, 11:12 AM (GMT+02:00)
Hamas appealed to Tehran and Hizballah Thursday, Dec. 25, asking for Iran's support by threatening to intervene if Israel launched an attack on the Gaza Strip, debkafile's Iranian sources report.
Tehran did not to reject the SOS out of hand but inform Hamas that Iran was awaiting developments ... 
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December 24, 2008, 2:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Despite the efforts of US and Israeli leaders, Moscow is delivering the highly sophisticated air defense S-300 system to Iran for securing its nuclear and strategic sites against potential attack.
The RIA news agency confirmed this Wednesday night, Dec. 18. debkafile's military sources disclose the S-300 deliveries began two weeks ... |
