Originally posted by Bob H: Minnesota’s High Tax, High Wage, Union Economy Now #1 State To Do Business
Didn't Ford closed their St Paul plant a few years ago even though they had a hydro dam power plant on the Mississippi and essentially had free electric power for their factory?
VIENNA (AP) -- Negotiations over Iran's nuclear program lurched toward another deadline on Thursday with diplomats reconvening amid persistent uncertainty and vague but seemingly hopeful pronouncements from participants. (another)
Iran says Western powers backtracking as nuclear deadline expires
Iran accused major powers on Friday of backtracking on previous pledges and throwing up new "red lines" at nuclear talks, after the deadline to reach an agreement in time to receive expedited scrutiny from the U.S. Congress expired with no deal.
Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said a deal was unlikely to be reached on Friday and negotiators would probably spend the weekend in Vienna. "Now, they have excessive demands,"
Thousands of Iranians march in annual pro-Palestine rallies
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Tens of thousands of Iranians chanted "Down with America" and "Death to Israel" during annual pro-Palestinian rallies nationwide on Friday, as a top leader said the U.S. would be making a "strategic mistake" if it pulled out of ongoing negotiations on Tehran's nuclear program.
World powers announced Tuesday in Vienna that they have reached a nuclear deal with Iran.
While President Barack Obama claimed that the deal will prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, and European Union leaders hailed a “new chapter in international relations,” Israeli leaders said that the deal will guarantee the emergence of a nuclear Iran. One Israeli opposition leader said: “We thought it was a bad deal, but it is in fact a terrible deal.”
Indeed, the deal is weaker than the provisional arrangement the White House announced this past April.
5 Killed: Sailor Injured in Tennessee Shooting Has Died
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez pulled up to his military targets in a rented, silver Mustang convertible, wearing a vest with extra ammunition, wielding at least two long guns – either rifles or shotguns – and a handgun. His once clean-shaven face was covered with a bushy beard. A short time later, four Marines lay dead. A sailor who was seriously injured died Saturday. 5 Killed:
Governors order National Guardsmen to be armed after attacks
John Kerry: Anti-American Comments From Iran’s Ayatollah ‘Very Troubling’
Anti-American Comments From Iran’s Ayatollah ‘Very Troubling’
If it is the policy, iFresh off his completion of the Iranian nuclear deal, Secretary of State John Kerry continues his media blitz to sell the deal even as Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced the United States in a new speech.
“Our policies toward the arrogant government of the United States will not be changed at all,” Khamenei said, reminding Iranians that “American policies are 180 degrees different from us.”
Chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” were shouted during Khamenei’s speech.
Kerry admitted in an interview with Saudi Arabia’s Al Arabiya News that he was troubled by those statements.
Iran wants to take own soil samples at suspected nuclear site
WASHINGTON – Iran reportedly is insisting that its own officials be able to take soil samples at a suspected nuclear site and may get its way, in the latest complication to raise concerns from Congress as the Obama administration tries to sell the newly struck nuclear deal. On their terms?
Administration tries to persuade Congress not to revoke Iran nuclear deal
Three Cabinet secretaries continued Tuesday their energetic defense of the nuclear pact with Iran before the United States Congress, with guarantees that the monitoring and verification of Iranian installations will have no expiration date and that the economy of the Middle Eastern country will take years to recover.
While legislators study whether they'll vote against the nuclear accord, Secretary of State John Kerry and two of his Cabinet colleagues defended the deal at a second public hearing.
U.S. Has Photographic Proof Iran Is Trying to Cheat on the Nuclear Deal
Iran is sanitizing a military site believed to have been used for nuclear weapons research in the past. Testing of the site by the IAEA is one of the final hurdles Iran has to clear to gain sanction relief, and the U.S. intelligence community has evidence Iran is trying to cheat on those tests.
UN-Iran deal will let Tehran inspect site where it allegedly worked on nukes
VIENNA – Iran, in an unusual arrangement, will be allowed to use its own experts to inspect a site it allegedly used to develop nuclear arms under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work, according to a document seen by The Associated Press. The revelation is sure to roil American and Israeli critics