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Two clerics stand near Iran's Jamaran guided-missile destroyer as sailors prepare for an exercise in the Persian Gulf along the coast of Iran. Iran has never been shy about claiming military advances such as missiles capable of hitting Israel or an attack drone dubbed the "ambassador of death." Its latest focus: The high seas. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during the 66th session of the U.N. General Assembly at the world body's headquarters in New York on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Andrew Burton)

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Josh Fattal (left) and Shane Bauer are shown at Tehran's Mehrabad airport on Wednesday before leaving for Oman after being freed by Iran from custody. The release of the two Americans, imprisoned by Iranian authorities as spies, ended a high-profile drama that lasted more than two years. (Islamic Republic News Agency via Associated Press)

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Students at Josh Fattal's former high school sign a banner on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, in Wyncote, Pa. Fellow American Shane Bauer and Mr. Fattal, jailed in Iran for two years on charges of spying, were released from a Tehran prison on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Freed American Shane Bauer (center) is welcomed upon his arrival in Muscat, Oman, from Tehran on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Sultan Al-Hasani)

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** FILE ** In this May 21, 2010, file photo, American hikers Shane Bauer, left, and Josh Fattal are shown in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Press TV, File)

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Iran has set bail for American hikers Shane Bauer (left) and Josh Fattal at $500,000. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011, file photo, U.S. hikers Shane Bauer, left, and Josh Fattal, attend their trail at the Tehran Revolutionary Court, Iran. The website of Iran's state TV reported Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011, that two American hikers held in Iran have been sentenced to 8 years in jail each. (AP Photo/Press TV, File)

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Mohammad Ahmadian (left), deputy chief of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, exchanges documents with Alexander Glukhov of Russia's Atomstroyexport during a ceremony at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011. Iran's first nuclear power plant stepped up operations Monday after more than a decade of delays, pumping out electricity at up to 40 percent of capacity and marking a major step forward in the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Younes Khani)

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Masoud Shafiei, the Iranian lawyer for two Americans who have been jailed in Iran on charges of espionage, speaks at his office in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 30, 2011. Two Americans could be released after a court hearing slated for Sunday, their lawyer said. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal and Bauer's fiancee, Sarah Shourd, were detained on July 31, 2009, and Iran accused them of illegally crossing the border to spy. Shourd was released last year on $500,000 bail and has said she won't return to Iran for trial. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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Masoud Shafiei, the Iranian lawyer for two Americans who have been jailed in Iran on charges of espionage, speaks at his office in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 30, 2011. Two Americans could be released after a court hearing slated for Sunday, their lawyer said. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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Masoud Shafiei, the Iranian lawyer for two Americans who have been jailed in Iran on charges of espionage, speaks at his office in Tehran, Iran, on July 30, 2011. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this May 20, 2010, file photo, American hikers Shane Bauer, left, Sarah Shourd, center, and Josh Fattal, sit at the Esteghlal Hotel in Tehran, Iran. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal are due for what Iranian authorities have said will be a final hearing in their espionage case on Sunday, July 31, 2011. Sarah Shourd was freed last September. (AP Photo/Press TV, File

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is said to be concerned about international reaction should the country develop nuclear weapons. (Associated Press)

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (right) meet on the sidelines of the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. The man in the middle was not identified. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

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Secretary General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Abdullah Al-Badri (right) and Oil Minister of Iran and OPEC President Mohammad Aliabadi talk on June 8, 2011, during a press conference after the OPEC meeting in Vienna, Austria. (Associated Press)

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Employees of Venezuela's PDVSA state oil company shout anti-U.S. slogans at the company's main offices in Caracas on Wednesday to protest sanctions the U.S. imposed on the firm after it sent Iran two shipments of an oil-blending component worth $50 million. (Associated Press)

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Illustration: Iran and Iraq by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

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** FILE ** Saeed Jalili (left), Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, and Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, talk as they arrive at the historical Ciragan Palace in Istanbul on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011, for a meeting between Iran and world powers on Iran's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Salih Zeki Fazlioglu, Anatolia, Pool, File)