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Published 6/17/2009 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - President Barack Obama is in a box over Iran, caught between affinity for emboldened reformists and caution about further alienating a hard-line Islamic regime he wants to dissuade from seeking nuclear weapons.
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