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Iran s official news agency says a complex computer worm has affected the personal computers of staff at the country s first nuclear power plant weeks before the facility is to go online.

Iran would consider ending higher level uranium enrichment, the most crucial part of its controversial nuclear activities, if world powers send Tehran nuclear fuel for a medical research reactor, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told reporters Friday.

President Barack Obama on Friday strongly condemned comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that implied a U.S. government role in the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

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An American woman released from Iran after more than 13 months in custody has begun her trip back to the United States after thanking Oman for helping to mediate with Tehran.

An American woman released from Iran after more than 13 months in custody began her journey back to the United States on Saturday after asking her supporters to "extend your prayers" to her fiance and another American man who remain in Tehran accused of spying.

Sarah E. Shourd, who had been held on espionage charges for more than a year, has left prison, her lawyer said.

An Iranian prosecutor said that authorities will release the woman on $500,000 bail because of health problems.

Iran has canceled the planned release of a detained American woman because the legal process has not been completed, Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi was quoted as saying on Friday.