Tuesday, 30 November 2010

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 30, 2010, 12:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saad Hariri and Ali Khamenei - an exercise in friendship under menace

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri ended his two-day visit to Tehran Monday, Nov. 29, with consent for Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers to take part for the first time in coordinating sessions between Lebanese army and Hizballah commanders, DEBKAfile's military and Iranian sources report. Supreme leader AliKhamenei gave Hariri his new orders, indicating that the only way to save Lebanon from deathly internal strife was for him to consolidate relations with Hizballah "as the same front."

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North Korea Big Gun Foreign Policy
Encouraged by China and US-South Korean-Japanese weakness.
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The Two-Timing Col. Wissam Al Hassan
Lebanese Intelligence chief, confidante of Western leaders and…Hizballah mole.
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Mediterranean Gas War in the Making
Moscow reaches out to Lebanon and Israel for stake in potential fields.


As blow after blow piles on, Iran feels driven to react
DEBKAfile DEBKA-Net-Weekly
November 30, 2010, 10:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
An Iranian nuclear scientist is killed

Tehran sees the WikiLeaks disclosure of broad antipathy for Iran as deliberate American mischief-making rather than an assault on US diplomacy. Saudi and other Arab leaders shown hustling Washington to strike Iran's nuclear sites was bad enough. But, as DEBKA-Net-Weekly reports in its coming issue out Friday, Monday's attack on its top nuclear physicists in Tehran may be the last straw before Iran hits back.
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Nuclear scientist killed in Tehran was Iran's top Stuxnet expert
DEBKAfile Special Report
November 29, 2010, 2:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Targeted nuclear scientist's car

World Exclusive from DEBKAfile's intelligence sources:

Prof. Majid Shahriari, who died when his car was attacked in North Tehran Monday, Nov. 29, headed the team Iran established for combating the Stuxnet virus rampaging through its nuclear and military networks. His wife was injured. The scientist's death deals a major blow to Iran's herculean efforts to purge its nuclear and military control systems of the destructive worm. Iran's nuclear chief Ali Salehi warned the perpetrator is playing with fire.

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