Submissiveness to North Korea is also the international model for Iran's first nuclear test
DEBKAfile Special Report
July 4, 2009, 10:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
"Not helpful," says Washington.
DEBKAfile's military sources report that the US, Europe - and even the Binyamin Netanyahu government - appear to have adopted the same strategy for North Korea and Iran. It is a combination of harsh oral rebukes coupled with a refusal to address North Korea's violations and Iran's race for a nuclear bomb in any practical way.
Both nuclear transgressors are trading technology and getting away with the practice of gross, ongoing proliferation.
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Show trials, possible execution, hang over "US agent" Mousavi
DEBKAfile Exclusive report
July 4, 2009, 7:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
Has the supreme leader turned against opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi?
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, driven by a thirst for revenge, is preparing a wave of show trials, public confessions and executions to crush the opposition which dared to refute the legitimacy of his election. The West, especially the Obama administration, hoping the bloody crackdown was over, can forget about re-engaging Tehran in talks on the nuclear controversy any time soon, when Mir Hossein Mousavi and the reformist ex-president Mohammed Khatami are denounced for "acting as America's fifth column."
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Big gaps, no answers, in Airbus company disaster findings
DEBKAfile Special Report
July 3, 2009, 12:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
Not enough to establish cause of crash
The information offered by senior investigator Alan Bouillard on July 2, one month after Air France Rio-Paris flight 447 plunged into the Atlantic killing all 228 people aboard indicates either that the inquiry is stumped or that information is being withheld.
American aviation experts ask many questions, including: How could the investigators be sure without examining the bodies that the Airbus broke up only when it slapped down on the water? All the remains are held by the Brazilian authorities who refuse to give France their autopsy findings.
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