A teacher and his two children died in a shooting attack on the Otzar Hatorah school in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, March 19. Several more people were injured, including two children in serious condition. A motorcyclist dressed in black opened fire from two pistols, 9mm and a 11.43mm, as they were dropped off outside the school Monday morning, March 19. President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered security boosted at all Jewish schools and institutions in France.
Assad’s survival with Russian-Iranian help means he backed the right Syrian horse.
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Tehran tends now to outface sanctions rather than bow to Western nuclear demands.
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Muslim Brothers used the Gaza clash as gate to Tehran via Hamas.
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- Rehearsals in Syria, Gaza for Iran showdown
- Iran threatens Hormuz, world oil after trade links cutoff
- At least 27 dead in Damascus bombings
- Israel ultimatum: Stop missile fire by Saturday night
- Iran threatens northern Israel with bombardment from Lebanon
- Israel develops its own bunker buster
- Palestinians maintain low-level attacks
- Iranian-Israel battle of wits over Iron Dome
- Multiple-rocket launchers and SA-7 anti-air missiles from Gaza
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Iran and Russia both won ground on the Syrian battlefield at America’s expense with this week’s Assad victory over rebels in Idlib, say DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s strategic analysts in its next issue out Friday. The indecisive way the Israeli confrontation with Iran’s Palestinian proxy Jihad Islami wound down also added points to Tehran - and Moscow less directly - after Washington backed away from the Gaza episode and Israel threw in the sponge. These players were testing the ground for a possible Israeli-Iranian clash.
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Ali Falahian, Iran’s senior spokesman on sanctions, said Sunday, March 18: “I suggest that the West take seriously our threat to close the Strait of Hormuz.” This was Tehran’s first response to the SWIFT decision to sever ties with Iranian banks.
Four US and French nuclear aircraft carriers and a dozen or more minesweepers stand by on both sides of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 17 percent of the world’s daily oil supply passes, and Israeli naval vessels are deployed in the Red Sea.
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Two car bomb attacks on Air Force Intelligence and Security Police Headquarters in Damascus killed at least 27 people and wounded 97 Saturday, March 17. A third bomb exploded on a bus carrying members of the pro-Iranian Palestinian Liberation Army in the Al Yarmouk suburb.
DEBKAfile: As well as Syria and the Gaza Strip, Iran’s hand links a widening circle of Middle East violence. Russian technicians man the Pantsyr-1 air and missile defense batteries shielding Syria from foreign intervention.
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