Ahmadinejad taunts Israel, says Iran will enrich uranium to 20 percent
DEBKAfile Special Report
December 2, 2009, 11:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
More defiance
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday, Dec. 2, that Iran will enrich uranium to 20 percent. Taunting Israel, he said: "The Zionist regime is nothing. Even its masters cannot do a damn thing." For Tehran the nuclear issue is "over." The Islamic republic will "not back down from its rights."
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Spiritual ruler Khamenei clips Ahmadinejad's wings
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
December 2, 2009, 5:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
In a sudden about-turn, Iran released five British yachtsmen Wednesday, Dec. 2, a week after their capture off the Persian Gulf island of Sirri. They were towed into international waters and arrived in Dubai later that afternoon.
DEBKAfile's Iranian sources report that this was one of the few instances in which Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei overruled president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Dozens of dead, 100 injured in Iranian pilgrim bus blast in central DamascusDEBKAfile Special Report December 3, 2009, 2:08 PM (GMT+02:00)  Syria blames "a burst tire" Syria insists that the explosion that killed dozens and injured 100 people on a bus full of Iranian pilgrims in the heart of Damascus Thursday, Dec. 3, was not an act of terror only a "serious accident" in which a bursting tire killed 3 people. The Iranian news agency, in contrast, described the incident as a terrorist attack which claimed 12 lives. The pictures spirited out of Damascus show bus had been wrecked and burnt in a manner that could only have been caused by a large bomb. | ||
The other face of Dubai's financial meltdownDEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive Report December 2, 2009, 7:34 PM (GMT+02:00) DEBKA-Net-Weekly finds enormous political and military potential in the collapse of the Persian Gulf's dreamboat economy for turning around at least one major international crisis and bringing tectonic change to the oil-rich Gulf region. Read about these startling after-effects in our coming issue, out Friday. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weeklyclick HERE . | ||
Hamas readies anti-Israel suicide terror to follow prisoner swap
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
December 2, 2009, 11:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
Information reachedDEBKAfile's counter-terror sources Wednesday, Dec. 2, of the discovery by Egyptian intelligence and security units of a large cache of bomb vests and 15-kilo explosive devices - some with built-in detonators, others attached to timers - in the Gaza-Egyptian border town of Rafah. They were smuggled out of the Gaza Strip to be carried through Sinai and across the Egyptian border into Israel, for suicide bombers to pick up and launch attacks directly after the prisoner swap was completed.
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