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Clerics are likely trying to see how far they can push. Iran’s choice to fill a U.N. post with a reported participant in the 1979 U.S. embassy takeover and subsequent hostage crisis in Tehran may have been a test shot designed to see how many allowances the White House would make before imposing hard lines against the Middle Eastern nation. Tehran this week directly petitioned U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to allow Hamid Aboutalebi to serve as its envoy to the New York headquarters. White House spokesman Jay Carney confirmed on Friday ...
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