Sunday, 25 March 2012

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis March 24, 2012, 10:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Barack Obama and Tayyip Erdogan get together

US President Barack Obama sits down with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in Seoul, South Korea Sunday, March 25. Earlier, Obama gave the Turkish leader - and Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu too - a lesson in political expediency: March 20, Washington awarded 11 nations exemptions from new US financial sanctions against Iran. The downscaling of sanctions caught Israel by surprise and angered Turkey, most of all as the outcome of unkinown secret US-Iranian talks.

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Headlines
Tehran forces Iranian Jews to join anti-Israel Global March - at great risk
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
March 23, 2012, 1:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hossein Sheikh-ol-Eslam, Global March organizer

The Islamic regime in Tehran was not satisfied with the public support the Iranian Jewish community was forced to confer on the Global March for a Palestinian Jerusalem for which Iran is recruiting Islamists worldwide. Now, the event’s organizers, Majlis Speaker Hossein Sheikh-ol-Eslam and Salim Ghafouri, have ordered the community to send a delegation of young Jewish men to march with the Islamist groups in Lebanon, DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources disclose, where they face the risk of murder or abduction by Palestinian Salafis.

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