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...Western Arab regimes, who have, uncharacteristically, largely avoided criticizing the Israeli offensive - because they see the Hizballah provocation as an Iranian power play in their backyard - but whose citizenry hail HIzballah as a champion of the battered Palestinians. Nowhere will the street-level passions stoked by Israel's campaign be more fierce than in Iraq, where Shi'ite followers of Muqtada al-Sadr are already rallying in support of Hizballah...
...rockets - primarily 122mm Kaytushas with an estimated range of 12 to 17 miles - at towns in northern Israel, but Israel's intelligence agencies had no indication that the militant Shi'ite group had anything in its arsenal that could hit a ship at sea. That all changed when an Iranian-supplied C802 missile slammed into the deck and killed four soldiers. "This was a huge intelligence failure," says a senior intelligence official of the C802, which is around 20 feet long, difficult to conceal,and requires time to launch...
...longer-range arsenal is still a matter of much speculation, even at the highest levels of government and the military. In recent government hearings, military intelligence official Brig. Gen. Yossi Baidatz said Hizballah had some 100 rockets that could travel between 24 and 42 miles, presumably referring to Iranian Fajr 3 and Fajr 5 missiles. Another senior intelligence official tells TIME that Hizballah "probably" has one or two dozen rockets that can travel up to 150 km, or 93 miles. Last Monday, the Israeli Air Force destroyed two vehicles that, according to military officials, were carrying Zelzal missiles capable...
...dialogue. But of course we will not negotiate our undeniable rights with anyone." --MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, Iranian President, whose refusal to halt Iran's nuclear program led the U.S., Russia, China and E.U. powers to refer the case to the U.N. Security Council for possible punitive action...
...official,"North Korea's two biggest customers for missiles and missile technology are Iran and Syria. Those states would also be prohibited from any kind of missile cooperation with North Korea. They'll try to get around it, but they'll be in violation of a Security Council mandate." Iranian officials in particular may worry that getting caught dealing with North Korea will sway China to support tough U.S.-European proposals aimed at forcing Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions...