A pro-government Iranian female demonstrator, makes her way as she holds a poster showing pictures of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at the conclusion of an annual demonstration in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in a ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the US Embassy by militant students on Nov. 4, 1979. A satirized drawing of the Statue of Liberty, is seen, painted on the wall of the Embassy. AP Photo logo AP Photo 2 weeks ago

A pro-government Iranian female demonstrator, makes her way as she holds a poster showing pictures of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at the conclusion of an annual demonstration in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in a ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the US Embassy by militant students on Nov. 4, 1979. A satirized drawing of the Statue of Liberty, is seen, painted on the wall of the Embassy.

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  2. EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Kuwait's Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah (L) attends an official meeting with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran November 22, 2009.
  3. Iranian MPs count the ballots after voting for ministers in the cabinet proposed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a parliament session in Tehran on November 15, 2009. Iran's parliament approved Ahmadinejad's nominations for the final three posts in his 21-member cabinet after rejecting his initial candidates as being unqualified. Framed pictures show late founder of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
  4. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waits for Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem before their meeting at the presidential offices in Tehran on November 4, 2009, with a portrait of the Islamic republic's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the background. Muallem is on an official visit to the Islamic republic for talks on regional developments and bilateral issues.
  5. A pro-government Iranian female demonstrator, makes her way as she holds a poster showing pictures of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at the conclusion of an annual demonstration in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in a ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the US Embassy by militant students on Nov. 4, 1979. A satirized drawing of the Statue of Liberty, is seen, painted on the wall of the Embassy.
  6. A pro-government Iranian female demonstrator, makes her way as she holds a poster showing pictures of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at the conclusion of an annual demonstration in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in a ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the US Embassy by militant students on Nov. 4, 1979. A satirized drawing of the Statue of Liberty, is seen, painted on the wall of the Embassy.
  7. A woman holds up a sign denouncing Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) near the United Nations headquarters in New York September 23, 2009. Thousands of people gathered to rally against the Iranian government and to protest its alleged human-rights abuses following disputed presidential elections in June.
  8. Iranian women attend a government-organized Quds Day rally in support Palestinians, as they hold posters showing supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, and Jerusalem's Dom of Rock, center, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. The ceremony was established in 1979 by the leader of the Islamic Revolution and founder of present-day Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Quds is an Arabic term for Jerusalem.
  9. Iranian women attend a government-organized Quds Day rally in support of Palestinians, as one of them holds a poster showing late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. The ceremony was established in 1979 by the leader of the Islamic Revolution and founder of present-day Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Quds refers to Arabic term for Jerusalem.
  10. A demonstrator holds a poster of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as he attends a government-organized Quds Day rally in support Palestinians, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. The ceremony was established in 1979 by the leader of the Islamic Revolution and founder of present-day Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Quds refers to Arabic term for Jerusalem.
  11. An Iranian man holds a picture of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) as others shout slogans during the weekly Friday prayers, the first since the start of the holy month of Ramadan, at Tehran University in the Iranian capital on August 28, 2009. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called in a speech at the prayers for the punishment of opposition leaders over the unrest unleashed by his disputed re-election.
  12. An Iranian man holds a picture of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) as others shout slogans during the weekly Friday prayers, the first since the start of the holy month of Ramadan, at Tehran University in the Iranian capital on August 28, 2009. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called in a speech at the prayers for the punishment of opposition leaders over the unrest unleashed by his disputed re-election.
  13. EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) visits Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, at a hospital in Tehran in this handout photo taken May 26, 2007 and released August 26, 2009. The leader of one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite Muslim political groups and most important religious dynasties died on Wednesday, said his party's parliamentary leader, Jalal al-Din al-Sagheer. Al-Hakim, who had been suffering from cancer, added to political uncertainty ahead of national polls in January and at a time when Iraq has seen a series of devastating bombings.
  14. EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) visits Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, at a hospital in Tehran in this handout photo taken May 26, 2007 and released August 26, 2009. The leader of one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite Muslim political groups and most important religious dynasties died on Wednesday, said his party's parliamentary leader, Jalal al-Din al-Sagheer. Al-Hakim, who had been suffering from cancer, added to political uncertainty ahead of national polls in January and at a time when Iraq has seen a series of devastating bombings.

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