Thursday, 14 January 2010

Israel bends to Turkish ultimatum, Ankara prepares next blow

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis

January 13, 2010, 11:07 PM (GMT+02:00)

Erdogan ready to punch Israel again

Erdogan ready to punch Israel again

Israel-Turkish relations dropped to another low Wednesday, Jan. 13, when Jerusalem was forced to send a letter of apology to Ankara Wednesday, Jan. 13, by Turkey's president Abdullah Gul's threat to recall the Turkish ambassador from Jerusalem. Turkish prime minister Tayyep Recip Erdogan, buoyed up by is power to force Jerusalem to bend, is reported by DEBKAfile's sources to be planning his next move for grinding down the Jewish state, playing to the radical galleries in Tehran, Damascus, Gaza and Beirut. Egypt's Hosni Mubarak is targeted for a share in the ignominy. 
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Covert war on Iran's nuclear program reaches into Tehran

DEBKAfile Special Report

January 12, 2010, 12:44 PM (GMT+02:00)

Nuclear physicist Masoud Ali Mohammadi

Nuclear physicist Masoud Ali Mohammadi

DEBKAfile reports: The covert war against Iran's nuclear program struck deep inside the Islamic Republic with the death Tuesday, Jan. 12 of nuclear physicist professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi, 50, by a remote-controlled exploding motorbike as he left his Tehran home. He was a senior professor at Tehran University which DEBKAfile's Iranian sources describe as an important hub of nuclear weapons research. Those sources stress that his death was unrelated to the political turbulence sweeping Iran since the June elections.