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November 12, 2009 Federal prosecutors Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a New York office tower owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.

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November 4, 2009 Tens of thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets of Tehran again on Wednesday to protest against the government and last June's presidential election. Some analysts had begun to write off the Iranian opposition as a spent force. But Wednesday, it was clear the opposition has not melted away.

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October 30, 2009 Iran has apparently rejected a nuclear deal with the United States, Russia and France that it initially agreed to. Iran is saying it wants another arrangement, but Iran's leaders insist they are not reneging on the deal. The U.S. and Europe aren't so sure.

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September 18, 2009 President Obama based his decision to scrap the Bush administration's European missile defense plans on a reassessment of the Iranian threat. A new intelligence assessment has Iran making much more progress on short- and medium-range missiles than the long-range ones the Bush plan was designed for.

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August 26, 2009 During a visit to Southeast Asia in July, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton candidly discussed what might happen if Iran gets the bomb and suggested one potential response: the extension of the U.S. defense umbrella to friends and allies in the Middle East.

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August 25, 2009 If Iran does eventually become a nuclear-armed state, one option available to the U.S. is an approach that worked for nearly half a century: deterrence. Critics say Iran's leaders are undeterrable because they believe in religious apocalypse. But others say the tactic has been effective with even more recalcitrant foes.

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