Archive for the ‘News’ Category
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Iran is advancing on dual nuclear bomb track: uranium plus plutonium
- November 25, 2009
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DEBKAfile‘s military sources report that the UN inspectors’ October visit to Iran turned up dual-track progress in support of its nuclear weapons program: Feverish activity was registered in the production of plutonium at Isfahan as an alternative to the Fordo enriched uranium plant near Qom which starts up in 2011.
The IAEA experts discovered 30 metric tons-IS of heavy water hidden in 600 tanks, each holding 13 gallons.
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Obama’s Iran sanctions strategy is routed by Chinese, Russian rebuffs
- November 25, 2009
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Chinese president Hu Jintao said clearly after meeting US president Barack Obama in Beijing Tuesday, Nov. 17, that their governments disagree on tougher sanctions for Iran – or any other issue relating to the Islamic republic. In Moscow, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said it was too soon to talk about stepping up sanctions on Iran, if at all.
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Netanyahu reconsiders nixed Turkish role in talks with Syria
- November 24, 2009
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Israeli emissaries head out to Cairo and Ankara next week to prise open doors for restarting peace talks with Palestinians and Syrians. Nicolas Sarkozy would welcome a mediation role for France but he has put Syria’s Bashar Assad on notice that he must ease his ties with Tehran if he seeks diplomatic progress with the US and Israel.
And if Assad poses a precondition for talks, so too does Binyamin Netanyahu.
Read DEBKAfile‘s Exclusive Analysis below on this new initiative.
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Al Qaeda-linked jihadis based in US plotted overseas ops
As America struggled with the legal niceties of terror, the FBI discovered a fully-functioning al Qaeda-linked terror cell in Chicago. Its ex-Pakistani Islamists were caught hatching plots against other countries like the one they masterminded in Mumbai exactly a year ago.
More about this tale of terror and suspense in the latest issue of DEBKA-Net-Weekly out next Friday.
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Controlled US-Israel discord on Jerusalem amid broader strategic understandings
- November 21, 2009
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The broad strategic understandings sealed by US president Barack Obama and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu at their recent White House talks are not to the liking of some their opponents at home, DEBKAfile‘s Washington sources report. While disagreeing on construction in Jerusalem, they decided to cooperate on the looming nuclear threat from Tehran and to a high degree on the Palestinian question.
The US will continue to invest in the Arrow 3 missile interceptor.
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US, Israel act to stop Abbas quitting for fear of alternatives
- November 21, 2009
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The Obama administration and Netanyahu government are bending over backward to dissuade Mahmoud Abbas from going through with his decision to retire from public life both as chairman of the Palestinian Authority and head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which he now says is final, DEBKAfile‘s Washington and Jerusalem sources report. His most likely successor is his deputy Abu Maher Ghneim, a died-in-the-wool rejectionist of negotiations with Israel
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Iranian TV headlines DEBKAfile Exclusive on US-Israel-Egyptian-Jordanian intelligence summit
- November 21, 2009
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Saturday, Nov. 14, Iran’s state Press TV ran verbatim DEBKAfile‘s exclusive disclosure on Nov. 12 of an extraordinary secret summit of the intelligence chiefs of four nations in Amman earlier this month to discuss the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program and the possible outbreak of a regional war.
The Iranian medium gave this publication full credit for the exclusive, which ran as follows: