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Director of U.S. National Security James Clapper has expressed concern about Iran's uranium enrichment work. (Associated Press)
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Asghar Farhadi, of Iran, poses Feb. 26, 2012, with his award for best foreign language film for "A Separation" during the 84th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this Tuesday, April 3, 2007, file photo, technicians work at the reactor building of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, some 750 miles (1,245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/ISNA, Sot Akbar, File)
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** FILE ** Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (center) listens to a technician during his visit to the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles south of the capital, Tehran, in April 2008. (AP Photo/Iranian President's Office)
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tours Tehran's research reactor center on Feb. 15, 2012. (Associated Press/Iranian President's Office)
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**FILE** Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (center) listens April 8, 2008, to a technician during his visit of the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, located about 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of Tehran. (Associated Press/Iranian President's office)
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Herman Nackaerts, a deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is interviewed upon his arrival from Iran at Schwechat Airport in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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Herman Nackaerts, the deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency in charge of the Iran file, prepares to depart for Iran from the Vienna, Austria, airport on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denied Thursday that an embargo on Iranian oil and sanctions against the central bank would affect his country's economy, but he also said he is open to nuclear-program talks with the West. (Associated Press)
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Iran is in a currency crisis largely credited to Western sanctions. Its central bank announced Thursday an 8.5 percent devaluation of the currency, and Wednesday the president agreed to a dramatic interest rate increase.
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Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul-Karim Elaibi, OPEC's acting president, said that while Iran's "enemies" have imposed sanctions on the Islamic republic, OPEC's focus should be protecting its members' interest and not being dragged into a political struggle. (Associated Press)
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Iranian workers transport a victim of a capsized boat to an ambulance at the port city of Bandar Abbas, Iran, on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Majid Jamshidi)
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** FILE ** In this Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, file photo released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, confers a rank to an unidentified member of Iran's army during a ceremony, in Tehran, Iran. During a graduation at Iran's main army academy, the country's leader sketched out the Islamic Republic's tougher military posture. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader, File)
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Beside a poster of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, mourners carry a flag draped coffin of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, in his funeral ceremony, on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Iranian Students News Agency, Mehdi Ghasemi)
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives Jan. 8, 2012, at the international airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela. Ahmadinejad visited Venezuela as part of his tour aimed at showing off relationships with some of Tehran's close allies, while tensions grow over the country's threats to block oil shipments in retaliation for tighter U.S. sanctions. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Iran's chief negotiator Saeed Jalili (Associated Press)
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Iranian security forces stand guard around the site of an explosion that killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility, in Tehran on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/International Iran Photo Agency, Sajjad Safari)
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** FILE ** In this April 8, 2008, file photo provided by the Iranian President's Office, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran. Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site well protected from possible airstrikes, a leading hardline newspaper reported Sunday, Jan. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Iranian President's Office, File)
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In a video image made from Iran's IRIB-TV, U.S. citizen Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, accused by Iran of spying for the CIA, sits in Tehran's revolutionary court. An Iranian court has convicted Mr. Hekmati and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday. Mr. Hekmati is of Iranian descent and a former Marine. (Associated Press)
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives Sunday at the international airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela. Mr. Ahmadinejad also plans to visit Nicaragua, Cuba, Ecuador and possibly Guatemala. (Associated Press)
