For a decade, Google and the other search engines declined to use a verification program created in 1999 by a group representing U.S. state pharmacy regulators to weed-out rogue online drug sellers.

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's International Atomic Energy Agency requirement of effective verification for Iran's claim that its program is for peaceful activities.

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Gerri Ratliff, chief of the verification division of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Department of Homeland Security unit that runs the program, takes strong objection to that.

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