Iranian general leads Hizballah war exercise integrated with Tehran, Damascus
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
November 23, 2008, 11:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's al Qods chief Qassem Suleimani commands Hizballah war drill in S. Lebanon
Hizballah’s military maneuver Saturday, Nov. 22, in an area south of the Litani River barred by the UN, gave Iran’s Al Qods chief, Gen. Qassem Suleimani, a chance to personally check on its Lebanese proxy’s ability to draw up battle lines at speed against a potential Israeli tank incursion of the Beqaa Valley. As of Saturday, Iran, Syria and the Lebanese Hizballah are tightly meshed into a combined Tehran-led front against any war contingency, bringing the Iranian peril right up to Israel's back door. Yet Israel’s leaders made only a feeble responseto this development.
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Iran will have fuel for 3 A-bombs by end 2009, US nuclear experts
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis
November 22, 2008, 11:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and missile
When Barack Obama is sworn in as US president on Jan. 21, 2009, Iran will have enough fuel for one A-bomb. The next Israeli prime minister after the Feb. 2009 poll will see Tehran doubling this capability. For years, world leaders vowed to keep nuclear weapons out of Iranian hands. Yet the outgoing US and Israeli administrations are leaving the world stuck with a nuclear-armed Iran.
Read how Israel missed the boat in DEBKAfile’s Exclusive Analysis below.
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Ali Ashtari in Tehran court before his execution as an alleged Israeli spy
DEBKAfile notes that Iran waited six days until Saturday, Nov. 22, before disclosing that Ali Ashtari, 45, was hanged on Nov. 17 after a revolutionary court in Tehran sentenced him on charges of spying for Israel.
Our Iranian and intelligence sources note that this and other disclosures were part of a new Iranian-Syrian propaganda campaign launched to counter the UN nuclear watchdog’s report that Iran has stocked enough enriched uranium for its first A-bomb. The Syrian site bombed by Israel was identified as a reactor.
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