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A Naval Clash Is on the Cards before Talks Resume in September
- July 22, 2010
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The Obama administration admits that there is no point in diplomacy and sanctions will have to be enforced against Iran, starting with searches of its ships and planes for contraband. Since Iran has announced it will resist, a naval clash appears almost inevitable.
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Iran Commits to Tit for Tat against New US Policy
- July 22, 2010
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In the wake of Obama's policy departure, Iran is poised to strike back at America – either by a nuclear device, a naval attack, massive terror or US military targets in Iraq.
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No More Meeting Iran Halfway on Nuclear Threshold or Limited Arsenal
- July 22, 2010
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Obama has informed P5+1 group plus Saudis and Israelis that he has abandoned his former willingness to accept a limited Iranian nuclear arsenal and is now ready to fight to stop Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon.
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US and Israel fear Iranian nuclear test this year
- July 22, 2010
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Shahram Amiri's return to Iran and a second look at the nuclear data he passed to the CIA for six years raise grave doubts about its value, debkafile's intelligence sources report. There is mounting suspicion in Washington and Jerusalem that Tehran used the scientist as a double agent to strew red herrings in their path – out-of-date material for concealing and misdirecting their attention from the rapid progress taking place secretly in Iran's nuclear program, as first revealed in DEBKA-Net Weekly 453.
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US-Iranian combat looms in Iraq as US plans UN role for US troop remnant
- July 22, 2010
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Military tensions rise in Iraq as pro-Iranian Shiite militias appear to be planning attacks on American forces, debkafile's exclusive sources report. Tehran is furious over Washington's decision to retain a number of US troops in Iraq, possibly as UN peacekeepers, after the pullout pledged by President Barak Obama to start on September 1.
US commander in Iraq Gen. Ray Odierno names three Shiite militias recently trained in Iran for a new collision course aside from the nuclear controversy.
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Israel's southern border wide open and undefended
- July 21, 2010
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The successful tests conducted by Israel's home-made Iron Dome defense system against short- and medium-range missiles won a showy press – even though it will not be ready to protect southern and northern Israeli from Hamas and Hizballah rockets for many months – and even then not in permanent service. Egypt has given up on its anti-arms smuggling steel wall for the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-Egyptian border fence will not be ready before 2013, leaving 1,000 illegal job-seekers to stream into the country every month.
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Israel's borders undefended as Turkey backs new-old threats
- July 20, 2010
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Turkey's foreign minister Ahmed Dagutoglu met secretly in Damascus with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal Monday, July 19, as well as getting together with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al Hariri, to synchronize their operations against Israel.
In Israel, the successful tests conducted by the home-made Iron Dome defense system against short- and medium-range missiles won a showy press – even though it will not be ready for Hamas and Hizballah rockets for many months. -
Israeli generals win US high-tech ballistic missile tracking system
- July 18, 2010
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A ballistic missile fired at Israeli from any spot in the Middle East, be it Iran, Syria or South Lebanon, can now be tracked from launch by top Israeli commanders by means of the Active Layered Theater Ballistic Missile Defense System (ALTBMD) developed to protect NATO forces against missile threat and provided Israel by the United States.
For the first time, Israel's war commanders will be forewarned of an approaching ballistic missile, its estimated launch point and impact target.
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The missing Iranian nuclear scientist who keeps on turning up
- July 17, 2010
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The riddle of Iranian nuclear physicist Shahram Amiri, who disappeared in June 2009 while on a pilgrimage to Mecca, was never solved – even when he turned up in Washington and flew home to Tehran on July 14. The glimpses into his story DEBKA-Net-Weekly provided Friday in its latest issue fit a Cold War espionage scenario much more closely than this week's US-Russian spy swap in Vienna, because it brought the undercover war between the American CIA and the Iranian MOIS to a new climax.
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Syria massacres Kurds aided by Turkey's Israel-made drones
- July 17, 2010
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Syrian troops are locked in battle with Kurdish fighters since Assad's army blasted four northeastern Syrian Kurdish towns in late June, debkafile's exclusive sources report. Hundreds of Kurds are reported dead. The Syrian forces are backed by Heron spy drones Israel sold Turkey, which becomes the first NATO member to share advanced western military technology with a state that sponsors terror. In intense exchanges with Washington, Israel asks NATO command to take this up with Ankara.