Saturday 14 November 2009

AEA sources: Site near Qom must be a military enrichment facility

DEBKAfile Special Report

November 13, 2009, 3:00 PM (GMT+02:00)

Fordo site no "hole in a mountain"

Fordo site no "hole in a mountain"

Sources close to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna confirm that the four inspectors who visited the newly discovered Fordo site near Qom last month found a fortified underground installation designed especially for the production of highly-enriched uranium for nuclear weapons.
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Iran digs hundreds of missile silos - some for misdirection

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

November 14, 2009, 10:05 PM (GMT+02:00)

Iranian president looks over his shoulder

Iranian president looks over his shoulder

The Iranians are frenziedly digging hundreds of new missile launch silos in central and Western Iran in readiness for a US or Israeli attack on their nuclear installations, DEBKAfile's intelligence sources report. The Iranians are working at the same frantic tempo to turn out Shehab-3, Shehab-4 and Sajil-2 ballistic missiles, as well as a fourth secret ICBM which is believed designed to carry a nuclear warhead.
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Iranian TV headlinesDEBKAfile Exclusive on US-Israel-Egyptian-Jordanian intelligence summit

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

November 14, 2009, 2:15 PM (GMT+02:00)

Saturday, Nov. 14, Iran's state Press TV ran verbatim DEBKAfile's exclusive disclosure on Nov. 12 of an extraordinary secret summit of the intelligence chiefs of four nations in Amman earlier this month to discuss the crisis over Iran's nuclear program and the possible outbreak of a regional war.

The Iranian medium gave this publication full credit for the exclusive, which ran as follows:
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Obama sends Bill Clinton to stop unilateral Palestinian state

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

November 14, 2009, 2:00 PM (GMT+02:00)

From Kosovo to Ramallah with opposite missions

From Kosovo to Ramallah with opposite missions

Mahmoud Abbas has been warned by the Obama administration to give up his plan for a unilateral declaration of the Islamic Republic of Palestinian within 1967 or 1949 borders with Jerusalem is capital. ButDEBKAfile's Washington and Jerusalem sources report he is forging ahead. His resignation stunt and obstruction of peace talks by demanding that Israel halt settlement activity first were drummed up to camouflage this plan.

Due in Ramallah Sunday, Nov. 15, on a mission to deter Abbas is a covey of US presidential emissaries led by former president Bill Clinton.

More details about Abbas' "Kosovo initiative" in the Special Report below.
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