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In this photo released by Iran's state-run Press TV, 43-year-old Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who had been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, wipes her face, as she attends an interview with Press TV, in the city of Tabriz, northwestern Iran, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Press TV)

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Iran's chief negotiator Saeed Jalili gets earphones fitted as he prepares for an interview with Iranian Television in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010. Talks between Iran and six world powers are going into a second day with no sign of progress on U.N. Security Council demands that Tehran curbs its nuclear activities. (AP Photo/ Anja Niedringhaus)

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Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, cuts a ribbon during a ceremony, as a truck is seen behind him, containing Iran's first domestically mined raw uranium, at the Isfahan uranium conversion facility in central Iran, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010. Iran announced Sunday that it has delivered its first domestically mined raw uranium to a processing facility, claiming it is now self-sufficient over the entire nuclear fuel cycle. The translation reads "First shipment of yellowcake produced in Bandar Abbas mill". (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Ehsan Khosravi)

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Illustration: Turkey and Iran

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** FILE ** Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad listens to a question during a press conference in Tehran on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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Iranian workers continue operations at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, although the Natanz enrichment nuclear plant was not fed uranium on Nov. 16. Iran's nuclear chief said Tuesday that a malicious computer worm known as Stuxnet has not harmed the country's atomic program and accused the West of trying to sabotage it. Iran earlier confirmed that Stuxnet infected several personal laptops belonging to employees at Bushehr but that plant systems were not affected. (International Iran Photo Agency via Associated Press)

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Iranian workers continue operations at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, although the Natanz enrichment nuclear plant was not fed uranium on Nov. 16. Iran's nuclear chief said Tuesday that a malicious computer worm known as Stuxnet has not harmed the country's atomic program and accused the West of trying to sabotage it. Iran earlier confirmed that Stuxnet infected several personal laptops belonging to employees at Bushehr but that plant systems were not affected. (International Iran Photo Agency via Associated Press)

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Shoppers at Iran's main bazaar find their money buys much less, and the expectation is for worse to come. "How much can we stand?" one woman asked. "People are very angry and very worried." (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Iranian workers work in a part of the electricity generating plant of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran on Oct. 26, 2010. (Associated Press/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour)

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Greek Deputy Defense Minister Panagiotis A. Beglitis says he is concerned about the Turkish government's growing ties with Iran. In an interview Thursday, he said it may have an impact on the NATO alliance. (Associated Press)

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai says Monday that he is "grateful" for financial support from Iran, used to maintain the presidential office, and that "this is nothing hidden." (Associated Press)

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Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reportedly told his visitor, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, that Iraq's 7-month-old political crisis needs to be resolved. (Iranian Supreme Leader's office via Associated Press)

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Hezbollah supporters hold up posters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad before his speech in Lebanon Wednesday. His fierce opposition to Israel is popular. (Associated Press)

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ISRAEL'S ENEMY: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is considered by many of Lebanon's common folk as a protector from Israeli dominance. (Associated Press)

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to the crowds from the sunroof of his SUV, upon his arrival in Beirut on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Children flash the victory sign as people line the streets to welcome Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the highway leading to Beirut Airport, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)

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A giant poster of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is on display in the southern village of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010, in preparation for Mr. Ahmadinejad's visit there. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, accompanied by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, talks about human rights abuses in Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, confers with an aide during a press conference in New York, Friday Sept. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans arrested and imprisoned in Iran on espionage charges after violating its borders, listens during an interview in New York on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. Miss Shourd was released Sept. 14, but her fiance, Shane Bauer, and their friend Josh Fattal remain in Tehran’s Evin Prison. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)