Debka, Briefs

November 26, 2013 Briefs 

    Israel’s security cabinet discusses nuclear accord with Iran 

    The security cabinet held a special meeting Tuesday to consider the implications of the new nuclear accord with Iran, the Syrian war, Hizballah and other current threats to national security. The session was unusually long and is expected to be carried over to Wednesday. IDF and intelligence chiefs gave the ministers special briefings. 

November 27, 2013 Briefs 

    Iran FM Zarif: Iran will continue building Arak reactor 

    Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Wednesday, Iran will pursue construction at the Arak heavy water reactor despite the deal he signed with world powers Sunday to shelve a project capable of yielding plutonium for nuclear weapons, reversing a concession hailed by Barack Obama as key to the deal. France called it a violation. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said she wasn’t sure what Zarif meant but road or building work might be allowable. 

    Ten Palestinian youths indicted for Jerusalem attacks 

    Dozens of complaints of Palestinian rock and firebomb attacks in and around NE Jerusalem, targeting Hadassah Hospital, the Hebrew University and road traffic, led the Jerusalem police to the neighboring village of Issawiya and the break-up of two gangs of assailants. Its 10 members, all teens, members of the radical Democratic Front terrorist organization, were indicted Wednesday. 

    Assad regime will attend Geneva II 

    The Assad government said Wednesday that it will send representatives to the Syrian peace conference opening in Geneva on Jan. 22. The Syrian opposition refuses to attend unless the agenda provides for Bashar Assad’s ouster. 

    Two Britons arrested in Kenya 

    The two Britons were arrested by anti-terror police in the southern beach resort of Diano two months after Islamist gunmen stormed a Nairobi shopping mall and killed 67 people. An Interpol Red Notice warrant is still out for the suspected mastermind British Samantha Lewthwaite, known as the “White Widow.” 

    Tehran: White house is lying about nuclear accord details 

    In the first major crisis of confidence, the Iranian foreign ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham Wednesday rejected the White House version of the nuclear deal agreed in Geneva four days ago, and accused Washington of releasing a “fact sheet that is a one-sided version of the agreed text” to “mislead the American public.” This version, said Tehran, was “invalid.”