Saturday 17 July 2010


DEBKAfile Special Report July 15, 2010, 11:16 AM (GMT+02:00)


Sergei Shmatko opens Russian energy lifeline for Iran

Countering the new US energy sanctions against Iran, Russian and Iranian ministers Wednesday, July 14 signed energy-related agreements, including sales to Iran of Russian petroleum products and petrochemicals. DEBKAfile's Moscow sources: These pacts offset the impact of Barack Obama's new US sanctions for hitting Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps' prime source of income and void Binyamin Netanyahu's trust in energy sanctions to remove Tehran's nuclear threat.


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The missing Iranian nuclear scientist who keeps on turning up
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
July 14, 2010, 7:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
The physicist with many faces

The riddle of Iranian nuclear physicist Shahram Amiri, who disappeared in June 2009 while on a pilgrimage to Mecca, was never solved - even when he turned up in Washington and flew home to Tehran on July 14. The glimpses into his story DEBKA-Net-Weekly provides Friday in its coming issue fit a Cold War espionage scenario much more closely than this week's US-Russian spy swap in Vienna, because it brought the undercover war between the American CIA and the Iranian MOIS to a new climax.

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