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Dubai Irandenied on Saturday that it had reached an agreement with theUnited Statesto ship its surplus enriched uranium toRussiaunder new concessions aimed at clinching a comprehensive nuclear deal with six world powers.

The Associated Press, citing diplomats, said on FridayTehranand Washington had tentatively agreed on a formula to ship toRussiamuch of the material that could potentially lead to manufacture of atomic arms by the Islamic republic.

It said negotiators had drawn up a catalog for the first time at their December meeting inGenevaoutlining areas of potential accord and differences in their 12-year nuclear dispute.

Iran's foreign ministry spokeswomanMarzieh Afkhamsaid "no agreement on any nuclear topic" had been reached.

"Such news is spread out of political motives and its goal is to tarnish the climate of the talks and make it more complicated to reach a settlement," the state IRNA news agency quoted her as saying.

The semi-officialISNAagency, citing an "informed source," also denied the report: "The topic of transferring (enriched) uranium abroad has been circulating for a while, but we haven't had any agreement in this regard."

The head ofIran's atomic energy agency,Ali Akbar Salehi, told worshippers at Friday prayers that the long nuclear conflict was drawing to an end.

"Have no doubt that the nuclear issue will be resolved inIran's favor and we will soon celebrateIran's victory," he was quoted as saying by Mehr News.

Iranand the six powers "P5+1" -- theUnited States,Russia,China,France, Britain andGermany-- are to resume low-level talks onTehran's nuclear activities inGenevaon Jan 15, but wide gaps remain in their positions.

An interim accord struck on Nov. 24, 2013, yielded steps byIranto curb aspects of its sensitive nuclear activity, including higher-grade enrichment, in return for a measure of relief from economic sanctions. But last November, the two sides failed for a second time to meet a self-imposed deadline on ending the standoff and extended the period until June 30, 2015.

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Dubai Irandenied on Saturday that it had reached an agreement with theUnited Statesto ship its surplus enriched uranium toRussiaunder new concessions aimed at clinching a comprehensive nuclear deal with six world powers.

The Associated Press, citing diplomats, said on FridayTehranand Washington had tentatively agreed on a formula to ship toRussiamuch of the material that could potentially lead to manufacture of atomic arms by the Islamic republic.

It said negotiators had drawn up a catalog for the first time at their December meeting inGenevaoutlining areas of potential accord and differences in their 12-year nuclear dispute.

Iran's foreign ministry spokeswomanMarzieh Afkhamsaid "no agreement on any nuclear topic" had been reached.

"Such news is spread out of political motives and its goal is to tarnish the climate of the talks and make it more complicated to reach a settlement," the state IRNA news agency quoted her as saying.

The semi-officialISNAagency, citing an "informed source," also denied the report: "The topic of transferring (enriched) uranium abroad has been circulating for a while, but we haven't had any agreement in this regard."

The head ofIran's atomic energy agency,Ali Akbar Salehi, told worshippers at Friday prayers that the long nuclear conflict was drawing to an end.

"Have no doubt that the nuclear issue will be resolved inIran's favor and we will soon celebrateIran's victory," he was quoted as saying by Mehr News.

Iranand the six powers "P5+1" -- theUnited States,Russia,China,France, Britain andGermany-- are to resume low-level talks onTehran's nuclear activities inGenevaon Jan 15, but wide gaps remain in their positions.

An interim accord struck on Nov. 24, 2013, yielded steps byIranto curb aspects of its sensitive nuclear activity, including higher-grade enrichment, in return for a measure of relief from economic sanctions. But last November, the two sides failed for a second time to meet a self-imposed deadline on ending the standoff and extended the period until June 30, 2015.

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If there is one regional player that gained the most from America's gamble in Iraq, it is Iran. With its invasion in 2003, the United States ousted Tehran's sworn enemy, Saddam Hussein, from power. Then Washington helped install a Shiite government for the first time in Iraq's modern history. As U.S. troops became mired in fighting an insurgency and containing a civil war, Iran extended its influence over all of Iraq's major Shiite factions.

Today, the Iranian regime is moving to exert influence beyond its Iraqi proxies, and is comfortable taking overt military action. There is no one to restrain Tehran, and the rise of ISIS, which views Shiites as apostates, threatens the interests of all Iraqi Shiite factions and of the Iranian regime.

In late November, Iranian warplanes launched several airstrikes against targets in eastern Iraq, pushing back ISIS militants who had neared a self-declared "buffer zone" that Iran established along the border.

It was the latest example of how Iran is expanding its military and political influence in Iraq, a country wracked by a complex civil war that leaves it open to outside manipulation.

Iraq is at the center of several regional proxy battles: Iran is heavily involved in shaping Iraqi policy, while ISIS represents spillover from the Syrian civil war next door. The militant group is also a byproduct of the Gulf Arab states that support Sunni jihadists in both Syria and Iraq. And the United States is bombing ISIS and other jihadist groups in Iraq and Syria.

The Iranian regime has several concerns: Iraq provides strategic depth and a buffer against Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Arab states that are competing with Iran for dominance over the Persian Gulf. More broadly, Tehran wants to ensure that Iraq never again poses an existential threat to Iranian interests, as Saddam did when he invaded Iran in 1980, instigating the eight-year Iran-Iraq war that devastated both countries.

Saddam was supported by the Sunni Arab states and most Western powers. (The Shiites are the majority in Iraq, but since its independence in 1932, the country had been ruled by the Sunni minority until the U.S. invasion in 2003.) Iran will do whatever is necessary to keep a friendly, Shiite-led government in power in Baghdad.

The long game

Iran has excelled at playing the long game, especially in Iraq.

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