Moussavi calls off supporters' rally to avoid more bloodshed
June 16, 2009, 4:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
Mir Hossein Mousavi averts bloody showdown
Iran's opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi told his supporters not to assemble in Tehran's main square Tuesday afternoon, June 16, as scheduled, shortly after a rally in support of the president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The authorities rounded up a group called by state TV "ringleaders of the current unrest in possession of explosives and guns." He took this as a message that the ayatollahs' regime had prepared a crackdown against his movement and decided to prevent a bloodbath.
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Scores of casualties from ongoing Tehran clashes. Ballot recount but no new election
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis
June 16, 2009, 4:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
First dead among pro-Mousavi supporters in clash with military
While Iran's state media claim 7 killed in clashes in Tehran, DEBKAfile's Iranian sources reported that by midday Tuesday, June 16, scores of casualties filled Tehran's Khatm el-Anbia hospital emergency rooms, wounded or killed by gunshots from ongoing clashes. Iranian TV reported that "ringleaders of the arrest had been arrested with explosives and guns. The Guardian Council announced a recount of ballots but refused to annul the election.
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Iran teeters on brink of civil war
DEBKA-Net-Weekly
June 16, 2009, 10:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
Street protests turn into mass dissent
The Khamenei-Ahmadinejad duo's grip on the regime is imperiled by four powerful faction leaders of the Islamic Revolution.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly's experts explore this fissure in its coming edition after Issue 400 revealed exclusively ahead of the June 12 election that one of the four, Hashemi Rafsanjani, had warned of street violence if Ahmadinejad was not restrained.
Don't miss DEBKA-Net-Weekly's continuing insights and predictions in the coming issue out Friday.
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Netanyahu's speech – more political than statesmanlike
DEBKAfile Special Analysis
June 14, 2009, 9:12 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech at the Bar-Ilan University's Begin-Sadat Hall Sunday, June 14, failed to offer a new diplomatic beginning for approaching the intractable conflict with the Palestinians, according to DEBKAfile's analysts. He finally accepted the two-state solution promoted by US president Barak Obama. At the same time, DEBKAfile's analysts note, Netanyahu spelled out Israel's conditions for peace with the Palestinians which are broadly endorsed across Israel's political spectrum but which none of his predecessors have had the courage to put squarely on the table.
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Gaza bombs planted to blow up ex-US president Carter's convoy
June 16, 2009, 3:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
The roadside bombs, planted near a crossing between Israel and Gaza, were intended to hit the former US president Jimmy Carter as he exited the Palestinian territory after sympathetic talks with its Hamas rulers.
Carter "held back tears" at the sight of living conditions there for which he held Israel wholly responsible.
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Enraged Palestinians weigh return to terror for Netanyahu speech
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
June 15, 2009, 9:10 AM (GMT+02:00)
Palestinian "special forces"
Senior Palestinian officials in Ramallah, enraged by the Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu's conditional offer of a Palestinian state Sunday, June 14 - and even more by what they see as US president Barack Obama's perfidious welcome - are weighing extreme options for reprisal, DEBKAfile's military sources report.
Some advise reverting to Yasser Arafat's two-stage tactics of synchronized terror and diplomacy and resuscitating the Fatah's al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and Tanzim terrorist organizations.
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White House welcomes Netanyahu's endorsement of Palestinian state
DEBKAfile Special Report
June 14, 2009, 12:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Binyamin for the first time spoke in favor of a Palestinian state alongside Israel in his speech at Bar Ilan University Sunday, June 14. But only on condition that the Palestinian state is demilitarized, does not control its air space, accepts effective security arrangements against arms smuggling, may not sign military treaties and finally recognizes Israel as a Jewish state.
The White House says this endorsement is a step forward. The Palestinians call it sabotage.
On Iran, he reiterated the danger to the world of extremist Islam meeting nuclear weapons.
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