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[JPost Front Page Top Stories] "Some combination of threats of intensified international scrutiny and pressures, along with opportunities for Iran to achieve its security and goals might - if perceived by Iran's leaders as credible - prompt Teheran to extend the halt to the above nuclear weapons-related activities. It is difficult to specify what such a combination might be."

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