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Clerics attend a gathering to condemn the crackdown on the Bahraini opposition, in a seminary in the northeastern city of Mashhad, Iran, Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Iranian clerics have denounced Iran's regional rival Saudi Arabia for putting down anti-government protests in the Gulf kingdom of Bahrain. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Sadegh Zabbah)
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An Iranian cleric tours a battlefield from the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war on Sunday, the eve of the Persian New Year. President Obama's holiday message criticized Iran's "campaign of intimidation and abuse." (Associated Press)
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Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani at a seasonal meeting of Iran's Experts Assembly in Tehran Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Mr. Rafsanjani lost his position as the head of the Assembly, a powerful clerical body charged with choosing or dismissing Iran's supreme leader. (Associated Press)
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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is to report on Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing this week. (Associated Press)
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Ali Davani (right) of Sky Star Co., a family business, supervises the loading of tires in January at Hamriyeh port in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for export to Khoramshahr port in Iran. Mr. Davani said the company receives calls almost daily from Iranian importers and distributors seeking to get goods shipped on credit. The answer is usually no. (Associated Press)
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Illustration: Iran
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Demonstrators set a garbage can on fire in Tehran to show their displeasure with Iran's theocratic rulers on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. This photo was obtained from an anonymous photographer. (AP Photo)
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This photo, taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows Iranian protesters attending an anti-government protest as a garbage can is set on fire, in Tehran Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. (AP Photo)
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, greets the Turkish delegation as his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul, second left, looks on, during an official welcoming ceremony for him, in Tehran Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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** FILE ** Iranian technicians work at the Bushehr nuclear power plant outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, in August 2010. (AP Photo/International Iran Photo Agency, Ebrahim Norouzi, File)
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Illustration: Iran by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times
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Iran's Chief Negotiator Saeed Jalili speaks to the media after two-day talks between Iran and world powers on Iran's nuclear program at the historical Ciragan Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
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Iran's Chief Nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili salutes as he leaves Ottoman-era Sultan Ahmed Mosque after he attended Friday prayers there following the round of talks between Iran and world powers on Iran's nuclear program at the historical Ciragan Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Jan. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
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Iran's Chief Nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, center, leaves Ottoman-era Sultan Ahmed Mosque after he attended Friday prayers there following the for round of talks between Iran and world powers on Iran's nuclear program at the historical Ciragan Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Jan. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
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Iran's nuclear chief and acting foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi (second from left) gestures as he talks to a group of foreign diplomats through snowfall during their visit to the Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak on Saturday. Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's envoy to the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency, walks at second right. (Associated Press/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan)
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Illustration: Iran's brain drain by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times
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An Afghan boy pushes his wheelbarrow past oil tankers parked near the Afghan-Iran border at Islam Qala, on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan, west of Kabul, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. Iran's decision to stop up to 2,500 fuel trucks at its border with Afghanistan is tantamount to an "embargo," an Afghan commerce official said Tuesday, as others warned the move could leave millions of Afghans shivering as winter rolls in. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)
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In an image taken from TV, an ambulance attends the scene of a bomb blast in Chahbahar, Iran, on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near a mosque in the southeastern Iranian city near the Pakistan border, and the explosions killed at least of 38 people at a Shi'ite mourning ceremony, state media reported. (AP Photo/Press TV)
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In this photo released by state-run Press TV, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, stands in the courtyard of her home in the city of Osku, Iran, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2010. The 43-year-old mother of two was brought from the prison to her home in northwestern Iran to "produce a visual recount of the crime at the murder scene," Press TV announced, denying reports that she had been released. (AP Photo/Press TV) EDS NOTE: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE.
