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It doesn't mean you ward it off.
It doesn't mean it will never happen.
It's just reduction of risk.
But let us start in Iran.
It's been a month since the regime's brutal suppression of mass anti-government protests,
which left thousands dead.
Five prominent opposition figures are reported to have been arrested in recent days,
in a sign of a further crackdown on dissent.
Meanwhile, with the U.S.