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Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey sits under a picture of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini at the presidential office in Tehran, Iran, March 17, 2008, during her meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Calmy-Rey signed a gas deal through the Swiss company Elektrizitaets- Gesellschaft Laufenburg. According to the agreement, Iran would supply the Swiss company with 5.5 billion cubic metres of gas per year starting in 2011. (KEYSTONE/EPA/Abedin Taherkenareh)