DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 28, 2009, 6:03 PM (GMT+02:00) Iranian protesters turn on security forces Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi's nephew, Ali Habib, was not shot dead during a Tehran demonstration Sunday, Dec. 27, as reported, but waylaid and gunned down as he left his home,DEBKAfile reports exclusively. Fresh riots followed the disappearance of the body Monday. The episode became still more ominous when Iran's security services chief Lt. Gen. Radan accused Mousavi of the murder to incite further violence. The opposition fears that this assassination augurs the physical liquidation of its leaders. The current upsurge of violence across Iran is the most dangerous yet,DEBKAfile's Iranian sources report in its Exclusive Report and Analysis below. DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 28, 2009, 1:53 PM (GMT+02:00) Gaza's smuggling tunnels blocked DEBKAfile's intelligence sources report Cairo has stepped up its siege measures against the Hamas-ruled Gaza. To cut off its smuggling routes through Sinai, Egypt is reinforcing the wall of iron plates with a new pipe for flooding the smuggling tunnels with Mediterranean water. Cairo is expected by our sources to present Israel with the bill for these unprecedented measures when Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak meets Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Cairo Tuesday, Dec. 29. Iran reels toward popular-religious uprising amid spiraling bloodshed
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Monday, 28 December 2009
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