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<div class='node-body'><p>WASHINGTON - In a move certain to ratchet up already-high tensions with Iran, the administration of President Barack Obama will remove a militant anti-regime group from the State Department&rsquo;s terrorism list, U.S. officials told reporters here Friday.</p>
<p>The decision, which is expected to be formally announced before Oct. 1, the deadline set earlier this year by a federal court to make a determination, was in the process of being transmitted in a classified report to Congress, according to the Department&rsquo;s spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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