Clinton,appearing at the State Department's daily press briefing, said she did not want to speculate on Iran's political future, but she that the reported recount is unlikely to do much to defuse election-related tensions.

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Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei emphasized the point at a daily press briefing on Friday.

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Those are the questions a journalist posed to the U.S. State Department during the November 28th Daily Press Briefing.

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