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![Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says the negotiations reveal U.S. “enmity.” [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/khameni_2739417b.jpg?itok=Q-nKDSbi "Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says the negotiations reveal U.S. “enmity.” [AFP]")
![An armed Iraqi holds his rifle, as he looks towards a burnt out lorry seen at the side of the main highway leading west out of the capital Baghdad to the city of Fallujah, in Anbar province, on January 5, 2014. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6281893.jpg?itok=IENNaC4V "An armed Iraqi holds his rifle, as he looks towards a burnt out lorry seen at the side of the main highway leading west out of the capital Baghdad to the city of Fallujah, in Anbar province, on January 5, 2014. [AFP]")
![US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) listens as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a statement to the press before a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on January 2, 2014 in Jerusalem. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Israel/000_Nic6281007.jpg?itok=1AImwQSY "US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) listens as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a statement to the press before a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on January 2, 2014 in Jerusalem. [AFP]")
![Recently released Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Khalaf is carried by friends in front of the Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on December 31, 2013. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/459816257.jpg?itok=9tTxXeFQ "Recently released Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Khalaf is carried by friends in front of the Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on December 31, 2013. [Getty Images]")
![John Kerry, U.S. secretary of state [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/186547877.jpg?itok=tgiNktQz "John Kerry, U.S. secretary of state [Getty Images]")
![Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Ali Akbar Salehi [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/187646800.jpg?itok=kMyVWVIw "Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Ali Akbar Salehi [Getty Images]")
![US soldier walks around an inert Hellfire missile as he perform a pre-flight check on an MQ-1B Predator unmanned aircraft system. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/us-sends-drones-missiles-iraq.jpg?itok=_0dJrtuw "US soldier walks around an inert Hellfire missile as he perform a pre-flight check on an MQ-1B Predator unmanned aircraft system. [AFP]")
