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This 2012 photo shows Yellow Dogs band member, guitarist Soroush Farazmand at the Death By Audio performance space in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Police say a musician who shot and killed three other Iranian men inside a New York City apartment before committing suicide was upset because he had been kicked out of an indie rock band. Ali Akbar Mohammadi Rafie gunned down the men just after midnight on Monday, Nov. 11, 2013. Victims Soroush and Arash Farazmand were brothers who played in a band called the Yellow Dogs. The third victim, Ali Eskandarian was also a musician. After the shooting, investigators found a guitar case on a rooftop they believe the shooter may have used to carry the assault rifle used in the attack.(AP Photo/Danny Krug) NO SALES

Slain musicians came to NYC for music freedom

By Colleen Long and Tom Hays - Associated Press

President Barack Obama walks from Marine One on the South Lawn after returning to the White House in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, from a trip to Florida. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama faces worry at home, abroad over Iran talks

By Julie Pace - Associated Press

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (left) gestures to Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, as they arrive at a press conference at the end of the Iranian nuclear talks in Geneva on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013. The European Union's top diplomat and Iran's foreign minister said nuclear talks between six world powers and Tehran had not sealed a deal. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani: Uranium enrichment is ‘red line’

By Nasser Karimi - Associated Press

Secretary of State John F. Kerry pauses during a press conference at the end of the Iranian nuclear talks in Geneva on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013. The talks failed to reach an agreement, but Mr. Kerry said Tehran and six world powers had made "significant progress." (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)

John Kerry: Obama prepared to use force in Iran

By David Sherfinski and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly Cabinet meeting in Sde Boker, Israel, on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013. Mr. Netanyahu said that Israel would do all it could to keep world powers from striking a "bad and dangerous" deal with Iran over its nuclear program. (AP Photo/David Buimovitch, Pool)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran: ‘No deal is better than a bad deal’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Secretary of State John F. Kerry gestures while speaking at a press conference at the end of the Iranian nuclear talks in Geneva on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013. The talks failed to reach agreement, but Mr. Kerry said Tehran and six world powers had made "significant progress." (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)

No nuclear deal between 6 world powers, Iran

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

A Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

U.S. intelligence warily watches for threats to U.S. now that 87 nations possess drones

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius scuttles a deal pushed by the U.S. and other Western nations to get Iran to freeze its uranium enrichment in exchange for easing some crippling economic sanctions. (Associated Press)

Embassy Row: French ‘backbone’ on Iran deal

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani meets with Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida at his office in Tehran, Iran, Saturday Nov. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Deja vu all over again: Iranian nuke talks hit snag

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** FILE ** U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at a press conference in Amman, Jordan, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)

Kerry exchanges with Netanyahu signal brewing crisis in Israeli-U.S. relations

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Iran's President Hassan Rouhani at his office ahead of a meeting with FIFA president Joseph Sepp Blatter in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday Nov. 6, 2013. Blatter met with Rouhani before flying to the Final of the FIFA U-17 World Cup in the UAE. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Tehran TV documentary tells how to attack Israel

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry walks to his plane after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. Netanyahu, before meeting with Kerry, said Friday that he "utterly rejects" the emerging nuclear deal between western powers and Iran, calling it a "bad deal" and promising that Israel will do everything it needs to do to defend itself. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)

Iran nuclear talks heat up, world powers dispatch diplomats amid Israeli concerns

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President Barack Obama talks on the phone in the Treaty Room Office in the White House residence. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Obama has ‘head handed to him’ in secret Iran sanction deal amid nuclear talks

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Iran's deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, right, and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano shake hands next to IAEA deputy director general Tero Tapio Varjoranta, left, and Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Reza Najafi, right, prior a meeting at the International Center in Vienna, Austria on Monday, Oct. 28, 2013. The meeting was held before agency experts meet Iranian diplomats in a renewed push to probe suspicions that Tehran worked on nuclear arms. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)

Iran negotiator sees deal on nukes close

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)

Netanyahu: Deal with Iran ‘would be a mistake of historic proportions’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** King Abdullah (center) of Saudi Arabia waves during the inauguration of the Princess Noura bint Abdulrahaman University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, May 15, 2011. The school will be the biggest women's university in the world, with capacity for 40,000 students. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency)

Pakistan built nuclear weapons for Saudi Arabia: report

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Iranian protesters hold flags during an annual anti-American demonstration in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Nov. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran sharply divided going into nuclear talks

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Iranian protesters hold flags during an annual anti-American demonstration in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Nov. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iranians flock by thousands to U.S. Embassy for anti-America protests

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Secretary of State John F. Kerry arrives in Cairo on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013, where he will press Egypt for reforms during the highest-level American visit to the country since the ouster of that nation's first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, in July. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)

John Kerry: U.S. won’t allow attacks on Mideast partners

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

KAZIANIS: China’s carrier-killer missile

By Harry J. Kazianis