The Syrian crisis assumed a big power dimension this week with the build-up of rival US and Russian air carrier armadas in Syrian waters – ranged against and in support of Bashar Assad,DEBKAfile's military sources report. The USS George H.W. Bush arrived Wednesday, Nov. 23, with 70 fighter-bombers and 8 guided missile cruisers and destroyers. Russia's only air carrier the Admiral Kuznetsov is due in mid-week to boost the three Russian warships already anchored off the Syrian port of Tartus.
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Khamenei says Iran with a bomb will silence threats and sanctions.
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Jerusalem has decided to attack Iran before June 2012. It is then or never.
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Riyadh has stopped waiting for any outsiders to strike Iran's facilities.
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DEBKAfile Special Report
Israeli and Jordanian armed forces were on a state of preparedness Friday, Nov. 25, after the Syrian military accused armed terrorists of an ambush killing 10 airmen including 6 elite pilots on the Homs-Palmyra road near the Tiyas airbase Thursday, "with the involvement of foreign parties, the foremost of which is Israel."
DEBKAfile The ambush was the work of the Free Syrian Army. Bashar Assad cannot afford to renege on the Syrian military's vow "to cut every evil hand that targets Syrian blood."
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his inner council are very near to deciding on an unanswerable rejoinder to the rising level of international pressure on its nuclear program, DEBKA-Net-Weekly discloses in its coming issue out next Friday. It is designed to checkmate the West's drive to curb Iran's nuclear aspirations in the coming days before a military option develops and sanctions cut down to the bone.
Our next issue will also reveal what is happening in the Saudi nuclear program.
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First, Hizballah reported the unmasking of a CIA network in Lebanon. Then, Wednesday, Nov. 23, an Iranian lawmaker Parviz Sorouri, a member of the Iranian parliament's foreign affairs and defense committee, claimed the capture of 12 CIA spies targeting Iran's military and its nuclear program with the Mossad and regional agencies. Beirut and Tehran had clearly joined forces,DEBKAfile report, to prove they were on top of their security and had smashed dangerous US intelligence networks operating inside their armed forces.
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After deploying three warships in Syrian waters, Moscow continues to beat war drums against the United States and Israel, followed closely by Tehran. Wednesday, Nov. 23, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced he had ordered "the armed forces to develop measures to ensure we can destroy the command and control systems" of the planned US missile-defense system in Europe.DEBKAfile: Those systems also control Israel's missile defenses against Iranian, Syria and Hizballah missiles and the X-Band radar station in the Israeli Negev.
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