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Israel: Iran's nuclear arms program is complete, its missiles can reach US

DEBKAfile Special Report February 2, 2012, 3:21 PM (GMT+02:00)

Tags: Israel intelligence Iran nuclear US Pentagon IDF

Military Intelligence Chief Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi

Iran has completed the development of a nuclear weapon and is only waiting for a sign from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to start assembling its first nuclear bomb, said Israeli Military Intelligence Chief Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi on Thursday, February 2. By the end of 2012 or early 2013 Iran may have a single nuclear bomb, he said, but by 2015 the figure would jump to four or five. Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon: None of Iran's nuclear installations are immune from attack.

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Operation Rent-a-General
Recruiting Bashar Assad's own military elite for an inside coup to topple him.
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Israel Girds up for Spring Strike on Iran
The IDF no longer hides its preparations to attack Iran and withstand war.
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Top Stories

• Clandestine Western-Arab op for Assad's ouster revealed
• Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood uses Hamas to open door to Tehran
• Assad may start regional war if told to step down
• Assad braced for military coup
• May tentative date for clash with Iran
• War of attrition brewing with Iran over Gulf oil routes
• Saudi Air Force to surpass Israel's fleet of advanced US jets
• India to buy Iranian oil for gold instead of dollars
• Nuclear Iran is past its point-of-no-return

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Clandestine Western-Arab operation for Assad's ouster revealed
DEBKAfile DEBKA-Net-Weekly

February 1, 2012, 2:15 PM (GMT+02:00)

Tags: Bashar Assad Western-Arab bloc Syrian army UN Security Council

Pro-Assad rally

An undercover operation to topple Bashar Assad has been set in motion by a large group of nations, the US, Britain, France, Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar– the most elaborate of the Arab Spring cycle. The coming DEBKA-Net-Weekly out Friday has the details and weighs its chances of success. The operation aims to bypass the Russian veto stacked against any effective UN Security Council resolution for halting Syrian bloodshed by striking at Assad's support structure of loyal troops and Russian-Iranian backing.
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood uses Palestinian Hamas as channel to Tehran
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

February 1, 2012, 10:13 PM (GMT+02:00)

Tags: Hamas Khaled Meshaal Jordan's King Abdullah II Muslim Brotherhood Iran Syria

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and Jordan's King Abdullah

Hamas-Damascus, contrary to Western reports, is firmly maintaining its ties with the Assad regime and the Iranian officials posted to the Syrian capital and Beirut as well as Hizballah,DEBKAfile's sources report. Neither is Hamas seeking to break its ties with Iran, its arms and cash supplier for years. Indeed, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is seizing on the coming Tehran visit by Hamas' Gazan Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh as opening a back door for mending its fences with the Iranian leadership.

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