DEBKAfile Special Report October 26, 2009, 5:48 PM (GMT+02:00) Just arrived, ordered to leave? Senior Iranian MP Alaeddin Boroujerd said Monday afternoon, Oct. 26 that the UN inspectors had carried out their mission to visit a newly-disclosed uranium enrichment plant and may leave Iran later in the day. DEBKAfile's Iranian sources report that the nuclear watchdog team were supposed to have paid a second visit to the Fordu plant near Qom in the next two days after their first trip Sunday. So either the Iranians cut the inspectors' mission short or they were denied access to the suspected facility and aborted. DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis October 26, 2009, 2:23 PM (GMT+02:00) Terror strikes heart of Iraqi government Because the Obama administration wants to put the six-year old Iraq conflict on a back burner, relying on the safe hands of Nouri al-Maliki, the deadliest terrorist atrocity to hit Baghdad in two years was treated in Washington and Baghdad as an unforeseen disaster, possibly triggered by Iraq's election in two months' time. In fact, the Iraq war is by no means over - or even won. At least five international and regional elements are keeping it seething,DEBKAfile reports. DEBKAfile Special Report October 26, 2009, 11:25 AM (GMT+02:00) French FM Bernard Kouchner French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner warned that Iran's nuclear ambitions have started a "race to confrontation" with Israel and the world's leading powers must break the deadlock before the Jewish state "reacts." A UN nuclear watchdog team paid their first visit to the previously hidden uranium enrichment site near Qom Sunday Oct. 25 and expects to inspect the site again in the next two days. DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis October 24, 2009, 8:34 PM (GMT+02:00) Site of Qom tunnel enrichment plant Four International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors were due in Tehran Sunday, Oct. 25 for their prearranged visit to the newly-discovered uranium enrichment facility near Qom. Aside from that inspection, not much else is left of the Obama administration's pursuit of engagement on Iran's nuclear program. Saturday, Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani threw out IAEA Director Mohamad ElBaradei's overseas enrichment plan the day after it was hailed by the big powers. DEBKAfile Special Report October 23, 2009, 1:33 PM (GMT+02:00) Pakistani brigadier targeted by Taliban At least 7 people were killed, 13 injured when a suicide bomber on a bicycle blew himself up Friday, Oct. 23, at the big Kamra aeronautical complex 60 km west of Islamabad.DEBKAfile's military sources report this is where Pakistan houses most of its nuclear bombs and air-air and air-ground missiles. In Mohmand, 15 wedding guests were killed when their minibus hit an explosive device and in Peshawar, a car bomb injured 15 people at the Sawan hotel. Terrorist pressure to reach Pakistan's nuclear arsenal was first reported byDEBKA-Net-Weekly on May 15. DEBKAfile Special Report October 21, 2009, 9:30 PM (GMT+02:00) Dr. ElBaradei Mohammed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, pulled a rabbit out of his hat Wednesday, Oct. 21 to save the Vienna talks with Iran on the future of its enriched uranium from breaking down on its third day. He put before the US, France and Russia and Iran a draft proposal and gave them until Friday to come back with their answer. The only officials to come smiling out of the aborted meeting were the Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalilee and his aides. But strangely enough, it was greeted with happy applause in the West. TOP STORIES DEBKAfile Special report October 25, 2009, 2:14 PM (GMT+02:00) Mini-sub for Iran, Syria The US Congressional Research Service reveals that Iran has helped Syria obtain "various forms of weapons of mass destruction" and missiles, as well as buying midget submarines - all from North Korea. DEBKAfile's military sources report that the North Korean miniature subs are capable of dropping small teams of commando forces on enemy shores, damaging large warships and mining the approaches of naval bases and harbors. DEBKA-Net-Weekly 418 updated byDEBKAfile October 23, 2009, 9:23 PM (GMT+02:00) Foreign role in enrichment - rejected After France, Russia and US accepted the IAEA director's compromise plan for Iran to export three-quarters of its low-enriched uranium overseas for reprocessing as fuel Friday Oct. 23, Iranian state TV announced Tehran had opted topurchase enriched uranium overseas and not send it out for further enrichment. Tehran waited for the three powers to approve the arrangement; then, when all eyes had switched to Iran, shot the ball back into their court. In Washington, the State Department said it was unhappy that Iran was not ready to embrace the plan. DEBKA-Net-Weekly 418 , just out Friday, examined the proposal from Iran's perspective. DEBKAfile Special Report October 21, 2009, 12:54 PM (GMT+02:00) Defense ministry officials say a dossier cataloguing Hamas crimes against humanity year after year can be compiled from voluminous records in short order and submitted to the international court, as DEBKAfile suggested in its special analysis on Oct. 17 of the fallout from Judge Goldstone's war crime allegations against Israel and the Netanyahu's government ineffective counter-measures. To read the analysis, click HERE DEBKAfile Special report October 19, 2009, 9:29 PM (GMT+02:00) The mysterious explosion which knocked Hizballah's military telecommunications network out of commission Saturday night, Oct. 17, had evolved by Sunday morning into three Israeli wiretapping devices buried in the hills of Houla in South Lebanon which were discovered and blown up. DEBKAfile's military sources report that Hizballah and the Lebanese army got together on this story to cover up the extent of the damage to Hizballah's military telecommunications network. UN team unwelcome in Tehran, Mottaki whittles down overseas enrichment plan
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