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Iran test-fires same missiles as handed to Hizballah 
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 13, 2010, 2:23 PM (GMT+02:00) 
Tags:  Fajr-5 missiles   Hizballah   Iran  

Iran's Fajr-5 points at Israel

Iran wound up its biggest ever naval exercise Wednesday, May 12, by simultaneously firing 30 short-range, surface-to-surface Fajr missiles of the same types as the brand-new weapons in the Lebanese Hizballah's armory, DEBKAfile's military sources report. This was Tehran's way of advisingIsrael of the heavily upgraded capabilities Hizballah has in store for the Jewish state.
The IDF is dismantling its large logistic bases and scattering essential stores among smaller, better protected facilities, logistics chief Brig. Gen. Nissim Peretz reports.

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Iran's nuclear and missile programs race out of control
DEBKAfile DEBKA-Net-Weekly
May 12, 2010, 3:22 PM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:  Iran nuclear   Iran's Revolutionary Guards 

Kavoshgar - Iran's passport to space

DEBKA-Net-Weekly's Iranian sources reveal that high-ranking Revolutionary Guards generals are engaged in intense turf wars to see which sections of Iran's WMD programs under their command reach the finishing line first. 
Our next issue out Friday elaborates on the state of those programs. It also offers an up-to-the-minute guide to the war preparations afoot on Israel's explosive northern borders.

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IDF officers slam Netanyahu's lack of strategy for northern threats
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
May 12, 2010, 1:21 PM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:  IDF   Netanyahu   Northern threat 

Attending IDF's northern war game

High officers leading this week's big war game in northernIsrael confronted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi with harsh criticism over the lack of a clear government strategy for dealing with the rising Hizballah threat of aggression and the uninterrupted flow of advanced weaponry from Syria to Hizballah. They said Syrian Scuds reached Hizballah because Israel was over-anxious to keep the borders calm at all costs.

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