Iran

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** File ** United States' Jordan Ernest Burroughs, celebrates after winning against Iran's Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi after the gold medal match at a 74-kg men's freestyle wrestling competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Aug. 10, 2012, in London. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** The U.S. Navy planned to send minesweepers and warships into the Persian Gulf in September 2012 for exercises intended to make Iran think twice about any attempts to block oil tanker traffic through the narrow waterway that links the region’s oil fields with world markets. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Iranian oil technician Majid Afshari makes his way to the oil separator facilities in Iran's Azadegan oil field southwest of Tehran on April 15, 2008. (Associated Press)

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Illustration Iran Talks by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

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** FILE ** Saeed Jalili, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, speaks to the media after negotiations with the United States and five other world powers in Baghdad on Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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Iran's heavy-water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak, 150 miles southwest of Tehran, is pictured on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan) ** FILE **

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** FILE ** In this Monday, April, 9, 2007, file photo Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks at a ceremony in Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 Kilometers (186 miles) south of capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, File)

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A satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe and the Institute for Science and International Security shows the military complex at Parchin, Iran, about 19 miles southeast of Tehran, in August 2004. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe and the Institute for Science and International Security) ** FILE **

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** FILE ** Iranian technicians work with foreign colleagues at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant outside the southern port city of Bushehr, Iran, in this photo from Nov. 30, 2009, released by the semiofficial Iranian Students News Agency. (Associated Press/Iranian Students News Agency)

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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 ** U.S. citizen Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, convicted by Iran of spying for the CIA, is pictured on a video frame grab image made from the Iranian broadcaster IRIB TV on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/IRIB)

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During a military parade in Tehran, a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards looks at a Shahab-3 missile, which can be mounted with a nuclear payload and can reach Israel, Iran's arch foe. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

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** FILE ** Iranian technicians work at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. Iran's nuclear chief said on Tuesday Nov. 23, 2010, that a malicious computer worm known as Stuxnet had not harmed the country's atomic program and accused the West of trying to sabotage it. Iran earlier confirmed that Stuxnet had infected several personal laptops belonging to employees at the Bushehr plant but that plant systems were not affected. (AP Photo/International Iran Photo Agency, Ebrahim Norouzi)

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FILE - This Sept. 21, 2008, file photo shows Iranian basij paramilitary volunteers, affiliated to the elite Revolutionary Guard, attending a parade ceremony, marking the 28th anniversary of the onset of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran.