Iranian refugee Mohsen Abdolhoseini, 34, is seen with her lips sewn together during a press conference in Athens on Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. A group of six Iranians have sewn their lips to demand that the Greek government grants them asylum, and have been camped in the city center since Sept. 1. The United Nations refugee agency and human rights groups have repeatedly criticized Greece for its tiny acceptance rate for asylum applications — less than 1 percent. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Demonstrator Sadra Shahab, of the Brooklyn borough of New York, holds a flag during a rally against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza outside United Nations Headquarters, Monday, May 3, 2010, in New York. Ahmadinejad addressed a U.N. treaty conference reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty during a visit to New York Monday. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
Iraqi soldiers kiss the coffin bearing the remains of an Iraqi soldier who were killed during an eight-year war between Iran and Iraq, at the border crossing Al-Shalamjah, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. The remains of nine Iraqis were returned to their native country during a ceremony at a border checkpoint near the southern Iraqi city of Basra. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
Iranian-Americans protest outside the Los Angeles Federal building against the Iranian regime in the Westwood section of Los Angeles on Monday, Dec. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Demonstrators protest the visit of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Brasilia, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
This photo, taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows an anti-government female protestor running away from security in a protest, on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009.
Iranian security forces beat anti-government protesters with batons and fired tear gas Wednesday on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover, witnesses and state media reported. The counter-demonstrations were the opposition’s first major show of force on the streets of Tehran since mid-September that coincided with state-sponsored protests against Israel.
United Nations inspectors visit once-secret Iranian site
U.N inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) check in at Vienna’s International Airport on their way to Iran, Saturday Oct. 24, 2009. A team of U.N. inspectors is heading to Iran to visit a recently revealed nuclear site. The International Atomic Energy Agency experts are slated to examine an unfinished uranium enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom to verify it is for peaceful purposes. Disclosure of its existence last month raised international suspicion over the extent and aim of the country’s nuclear program. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)
Iran to consider draft nuke deal
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, left, speaks to media after talks between Iran and the United States, Russia and France over Iran’s nuclear program, on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, at Vienna’s International Center. Iran has agreed to a draft deal that would see it ship out most of its enriched uranium to Russia, the International Atomic Energy Agency and diplomats said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)


