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NEXT MOVES?
Clockwise from top left: Iranian leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top leaders
in Tehran on January 20; the Three Mile
Island nuclear power plant in 2018; voting
in Charlotte, North Carolina, on November
6, 2018; and a rally in Tehran on January 4.