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ME war tensions mount over Gaza-bound "enemy ships." Hizballah pledges reprisal
- June 24, 2010
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Ominous clouds gathered over the Mediterranean Thursday, June 24 after Israel announced that ships bound for Gaza would be deemed "enemy vessels" and halted by its navy. Hizballah shot back with a threat of violent retaliation, while Israel's northern commander warned the IDF was prepared to deal with threats from Lebanon by "appropriate means."
Fearing war, Lebanese PM Saad Hariri acted to stall the sea campaign.
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Iran on war alert over "US and Israeli concentrations" in Azerbaijan
- June 23, 2010
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Iran has declared a state of war on its northwestern border and is pouring Revolutionary Guards units with equipment into the Caspian region against what Tehran claims are US and Israeli forces concentrated on army and air bases in Azerbaijan ready to strike Iran's nuclear facilities.
Iranian officials often speak of impending US and Israeli attacks in general terms; never until now have they named a specific location under threat.
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US-led armada secretly drilled bombing Iranian targets, missile defense with Israel
- June 22, 2010
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The 10 US warships plus an Israeli and German battle vessel each, which transited the Suez Canal Friday, June 18, have reached the Persian Gulf. But first, from June 6 through June 10, the USS Harry S. Truman carrier Strike Group was deployed 50 miles off the shore of southwestern Israel on a secret joint war exercise, as first revealed by DEBKA-Net-Weekly 449 on June 18.
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Hizballah's "change of mind" over assassinating Israeli – a face-saver
- June 22, 2010
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Hizballah's Hassan Nasrallah did not feel safe enough to take up Turkish prime minister Recep Erdogan's invitation to visit Ankara - even protected by the intelligence agencies of Iran, Syria, Turkey and Hizballah's own service, debkafile's counter-terror sources disclose. But his Gaza blockade busting flotilla is still stuck in Beirut port. Hence his face-saving leak to the Kuwaiti A-Rai.
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Gaza sea blockade upheld by US, EU as Israel eases land siege
- June 20, 2010
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Barring surprises, the sea campaign against Israel's naval blockade of Gaza spearheaded by Turkey may have run its course, debkafile's Middle East sources report. Beirut is close to abandoning the Lebanese convoy, Damascus has turned away requests to use its ports, Cyprus is negative and even the Iranian expedition appears snarled. In the last 24 hours, Israel won US, European and Mahmoud Abbas' support for its sea blockade after its cabinet approved the delivery of all civilian goods to Gaza over land.