DEBKAfile offers exclusive details on the British Foreign Secretary William Hague's allegation Wednesday, June 29, that Iran has carried out secret tests of missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload in breach of UN resolution 1929: Three of those tests, four in all, were carried out between October 2010 and February 2011and the fourth on Tuesday, June 28, in the course of the Prophet Mohammed war games currently in progress. Three tests by Sejjil and Shahab-3 Kadar were successful. British Foreign Secretary William Hague stated Wednesday, June 29: "Iran has been carrying out covert ballistic missile tests and rocket launches, including testing missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload in contravention of UN resolution 1929." Hague was the first Western leader to confirm DEBKAfile's disclosures in the past year. He spoke as American naval, air and marine forces built up in the Mediterranean, the Aden and Oman straits, the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. Tuesday, June 28, Day Two of its war games, Iran flexed muscle in the direction of the US and Israel. After simultaneously test-firing 14 2,000-kilometer-range missiles at a single target, Com. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards' aerospace division, emphasized: "Iranian missiles can target US bases in Afghanistan and any part of Israeli territory." DEBKAfile: Iran is working on missiles capable of reaching West Europe and North America as well as planning to put a monkey in space in July. Iran's big war game was launched Monday, June 27 ahead of a Turkish operation against Syria's Assad regime anticipated by its military and Revolutionary Guards chiefs, with the unveiling of its first underground missile silo. DEBKAfilereports Tehran expects the Turkish army to have US air and naval support in case of Iranian reprisals against them both. Israel moves an Iron Dome rocket interceptor battery to Haifa. President Barack Obama has shelved any serious effort to generate Israel-Palestinian negotiations for at least two years,DEBKAfile's exclusive sources report from Washington. "It's a second term issue," he is quoted as telling his advisers. Only in November 2012 will he know if he is returned for another term as president and then too is unlikely to get back to the Israeli-Palestinian issue for several more months – "depending largely how the Arab Revolt" goes. Five years after the Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit was kidnapped by Hamas in a cross-border raid from Gaza, members of his family Saturday, June 25, chained themselves to the fence outside the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's residence in desperate protest. DEBKAfile: Their protest is misdirected to the wrong address: Even if Israel bowed to every Hamas demand, its leaders backed by Iran and Syria would set a new price as the pretext for holding on to this prime asset.
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DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 30, 2011, 12:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
Putin imposes secrecy on nuclear Iran
June 29, 2011, 5:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Kavoshgar-5 can carry a nuclear payload
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Iran tests missiles for hitting Israel, US bases, first space monkey in July
June 28, 2011, 9:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
First Iranian ballistic silo unveiled
Iran unveils underground missile silo, poises for US-Turkish attack on Syria. Iron Dome for Haifa
June 27, 2011, 9:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
USS Enterprise and USS Bush cross paths in Bab al Mandeb Straits.
Obama puts Israel-Palestinian issue on hold for second term
June 27, 2011, 9:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israel-Palestinian talks: "A second-term issue"
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June 26, 2011, 12:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
Chained to the wrong fence
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