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Iran capitalizes on Obama's silence on Bushehr
- August 24, 2010
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How did US President Barack Obama come to misjudge the cost of assenting to the start-up of Iran's first nuclear reactor? In its coming issue out Friday, DEBKA-Net-Weekly will disclose how Iran swiftly cashed this blank check in terms of boosting its nuclear bomb program and regional standing whereas Binyamin Netanyahu was left watching his policies vis-à-vis Iran and the Arab go into the red.
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Secret US-Russian sanctions vs Bushehr deal tied Israel's hands
- August 21, 2010
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The extraordinary meekness with which the US and Israel greeted Russia's start-up of Iran's first nuclear reactor is accounted for, debkafile reports, by a secret Washington-Moscow deal whereby Russia voted with the US for UN sanctions against Iran in return for which Washington and Jerusalem tacitly assented to the activation of the Iranian reactor. Will Israel's acquiescence extend to deals with the Palestinians?
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Arab sources: A major military surprise is close. Galant scandal a smokescreen
- August 20, 2010
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War preparations are reported by debkafile in Tehran and Damascus. In the US, a flock of pundits and commentators speculate aloud about a possible attack on Iran, underlining the danger of Iran's first nuclear reactor going on stream at Bushehr Saturday, Aug. 21. This event seems to have gone unnoticed in Israel, raising Arab suspicions that the Galant Affair is a smokescreen. But US officials say they have persuaded Israel the Iranian nuclear threat is a year away.
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A Digest of DEBKAfile Round-the-Clock Exclusives in the Week Ending August 19, 2010
- August 19, 2010
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A Digest of debkafile Round-the-Clock Exclusives in the Week Ending August 19, 2010
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Israel Could Have Pierced Assad's and Nasrallah's Personal Security
- August 19, 2010
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A Lebanese spy betrays the innermost personal security secrets of the two best-protected Arab leaders.