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US to sell Israel massive military fuel stocks worth $2 bn
- August 28, 2010
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On Aug. 6, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency informed Congress of the sale to Israel of 60 million gallons of unleaded gasoline, 284 million gallons of JP-8 aviation jet fuel and 100 million gallons of diesel fuel worth an estimated $2bn, saying: "Israel will have no difficulty absorbing this additional fuel into its armed forces." debkafile notes the date: Ten days after a Japanese supertanker tanker carrying 200,000 tons of oil was attacked heading out of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Rival Iranian spy factions shoot it out on Tehran's streets
- August 27, 2010
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On Aug. 23, just two days after Iran inaugurated its first nuclear reactor at Bushehr, debkafile's exclusive sources report a shootout in the streets of Tehran flared between rival intelligence factions of the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) and the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) – as mutual suspicions boiled over.
IRGC nuclear directors suspect politicians of betraying nuclear secrets to the West, while the MOIS sees disloyalty in the Ahmadinejad clique. The incident was blacked out by the regime.
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A Digest of DEBKAfile Round-the-Clock Exclusives in the Week Ending August 26, 2010
- August 26, 2010
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A Digest of debkafile Round-the-Clock Exclusives in the Week Ending August 26, 2010
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Tehran Threatens a Regional War If Guards Officers Are Indicted
- August 26, 2010
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The Hariri probe which started by fingering Syria and moved to Hizballah now homes in on Iranian Revolutionary Guards chiefs.
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Israel Erred in Assuming its Inaction on Bushehr Would Buy US Backing against the Palestinians
- August 26, 2010
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Netanyahu accuses Obama of reneging another set of understandings – both on Iran and on the talks with the Palestinians, raising suspicions in Washington that Israel plans to attack Iran.