IRAN V. ISRAEL

AS IRAN BLUSTERS, ISRAEL PREPARES

Iran to Use 100,000 Centrifuges in Nuclear Program
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Iran plans to use 100,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium as part of its nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today. Iran ``aims to have 100,000 centrifuges,'' the state-run Iranian Students News Agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. ``God willing, Iran will meet its nuclear fuel needs by next year.''...

Ahmadinejad, speaking during a visit to the Tehran offices of state-run television, dismissed reports of possible Israeli strikes against Iran as ``media warfare,'' ISNA reported. ``The Israeli regime will presently not attack Iran because it faces many problems'' and is currently ``weak,'' said Ahmadinejad, pronounced ah-ma-deen-ah-ZHAD. The Iranian president has called for Israel's destruction and expressed doubts about the scope of the World War II Holocaust.

Report: Israeli spies active in Iran (JPost)
Iran has developed and tested a trigger device for a nuclear bomb, Israeli agents stationed there have told the White House, according to a report published in The New Yorker Monday morning.

According to the report, written by Seymour M. Hersh, the White House received the information but did not pass it on to the CIA.

The report also stated that in the past six months, Israel and the United States had been working together to support a Kurdish resistance group known as the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan.

The group had been conducting clandestine cross-border forays into Iran, as "part of an effort to explore alternative means of applying pressure on Iran," Hersh said he was told by a government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon civilian leadership. The government consultant reportedly said Israel was supplying the Kurdish group with "equipment and training." The group had also been given "a list of targets inside Iran of interest to the US." An Israeli government spokesman denied that Israel was involved.

The Israeli intelligence presented a stark contrast to recent CIA estimates on Iran's nuclear program, which claimed that Teheran was far from attaining a nuclear bomb.