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Iran Nuclear Talks Extended 7 Months; $700 Million In Monthly Sanctions Lifted

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In what is hardly a surprising outcome, the parties involved in the Iran nuclear talks have decided it best for all to extend (and pretend) the discussion for another 7 months:

  • *IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS EXTENDED UNTIL JULY 1, OFFICIALS SAY

Diplomatic teams will reconvene in December and the US State Department is proclaiming "good progress" in a brief statement. 7 more months of sanctions, a call with Putin today, and OPEC later in the week... one wonders if any of this will be relevant in 7 months. Additionally, it seems beggars can be choosers as P5+1 says Iran can get $700 million per month in frozen assets back...

 

 

As CNN reports,

One of the primary sticking points in this round of talks has been how to lift sanctions against Iran.

 

Hardliners in Iran have insisted that significant sanctions be lifted right away as a sign of good faith from the P5+1 countries. Such penalties, including banking and energy sanctions, would affect tens of billions of dollars.

 

Earlier this month, 200 Iranian members of parliament signed a statement demanding that Iranian negotiators "vigorously defend" the country's nuclear rights and ensure a "total lifting of sanctions."

 

But P5+1 members have said they'd prefer to lift the sanctions incrementally so they can have leverage on Iran and to make sure Tehran makes good on its commitments to whatever deal is reached.

 

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Reaching a deal by the deadline "would be impossible" based on the differences that remain between negotiators, the Iranian Students' News Agency reported Sunday, citing an unidentified Iranian official involved in the talks.

 

Before Monday's extension of talks, a U.S. State Department official said negotiators had been "chipping away" at the issues.

 

"The focus of discussions remains on an agreement, but we are discussing both internally and with our partners a range of options for the best path forward," the official said.

 

This isn't the first time negotiations over Iran's nuclear program have been extended. The previous deadline had been pushed back four months, to this round of talks.

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It seems, once again, beggars can be choosers and consequences are a thing of the past anyway...

  • *IRAN TO GET $700M IN FROZEN ASSETS PER MONTH, U.K. SAYS: AFP
  • *IRAN SAYS TO RECEIVE $700 MLN/MONTH UNDER EXTENSION: Lavrov

So deal extended, no benefits for West... but you can have some of your funds back... *as long as you keep pressuring OPEC to keep oil prices low (but not too low)

 

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Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:38 | 5481140 AdvancingTime
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Back at the end of 2013 when a deal was signed Iran insisted on certain sovereign rights to pursue programs within their borders throughout almost a decade of  fruitless negotiations. Back then Iran indicated that it was ready to sign a deal that does not expressly rule out that right. Iranian hard-liners were suspicious of talk of nuclear compromise since moderate President Hassan Rouhani took office in September, fearing his team would not get enough in terms of sanctions relief over the six-months of any first-stage agreement.

For the world the bottom-line remains that if  Iran does not halt and reverse its course any agreement means nothing. Iran can ramp up its plans to develop a nuclear bomb at off site locations. In the long-run Iran wins. The article below refreshes our memory as to some of the most important issues at the time, not much has changed over the months. If America continues to lose influence Iran can look forward to facing a defanged and economically weakened America with less power in the region. It appears ISIS has made this a reality.

.http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/11/iran-and-nuclear-negotiations.html

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:39 | 5481143 SWRichmond
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So is this America's weak attempt to draw Iran away from Russian influence?  Lolz.

Watching NATO come apart at the seams, in Turkey, right now.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:50 | 5481168 philipat
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Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:55 | 5481174 Latina Lover
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I doubt that Iran will be directly attacked by Israel unless they have explicit USSA backing.  This also will likely lead to a regional, and then global war.  So if the USSA agrees, it is likely because the financial system is imminently imploding.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:01 | 5481200 philipat
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They need the newer, heavier, "Bunker Busters" which are already stored in Diego Garcia. Just waiting to go.

But with the deadline extending, Iran will be nuclear capable before the end of "Negotiations". So welcome Iran to the league of peaceful nuclear nations...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:23 | 5481268 FMR Bankster
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A direct attack from Israel is too risky and not likely to be sucessful. Computer attacks and periodic raids on nuclear facilities by affiliated anti regime forces in Iran offer a better risk/reward balance. The negotiations are, of course, a waste of time as they will come to nothing.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:05 | 5481961 MalteseFalcon
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Is this why Hagel disappeared?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:41 | 5481355 TheFourthStooge-ing
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But with the deadline extending, Iran will be nuclear capable before the end of "Negotiations".

Nuclear capable? What does that mean?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:51 | 5481399 Oldballplayer
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Isreal, not matter what the zionist haters on here think, is not stupid.  They will not bomb them conventionally.

You will continue to see scientists die, you will continue to see accidents.  You will continue to see sabotage.

And when they get to the point where they "need to bomb" they will have developed a bunker buster that will do the job.  How long do you think it takes to make one of those things?  With all of the jew brains in Isreal, you don't think they cannot make a new bomb?

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:40 | 5481849 kchrisc
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With respect, but you have who needs whose go-ahead reversed.

The DC US is Israel's bitch, and will bomb when Israel, and Zion, say to bomb.

Also makes things easier for Israel in case of retaliation.

An American, not US subject.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:56 | 5481179 GetZeeGold
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Iran Nuclear Talks Extended 7 Months

 

Why not just wait until after they have a nuke? Then the Sec State can go back to windsurfing.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:50 | 5481391 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Why not just wait until after they have a nuke?

It's likely to be a rather long wait. For more than 30 years, two things have remained constant.

1 - No evidence of an Iranian program to develop atomic weapons.

2 - Hysterical bleatings that Iran is 6 to 12 months away from having an atom bomb.

I agree, though, that Kerry's time is better spent windsurfing, just as Obama's time is better spent golfing and the House and Senate's time is better spent in recess.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:51 | 5481607 Bankster Kibble
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Agreed, no action is better than the actions they have planned.  We don't really want all the government we are paying for.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:52 | 5481884 Winston Churchill
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They have the bomb.Have had for twenty years.They got it the easy way by

buying them(20) on the black market, in the chaos of the collapsing Soviet.

MOSSAD, CIA and MI6 have all known it for decades.

Which is why noone will be attacking Iran.

So what is this really about ?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:53 | 5481170 Latina Lover
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The Iranians will play along, developing their nuclear capabilities.  The Iranians understand that once they are a nuclear power, the likelihood of attack by Israel and the the USSA diminishes.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:54 | 5481183 TeamDepends
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Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:58 | 5481190 GetZeeGold
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It's less rituals.

 

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Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:58 | 5481195 TeamDepends
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Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:09 | 5481218 CrimsonAvenger
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Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:53 | 5481402 Oldballplayer
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Its going to be all glitter.  So cool.

 

I will focus on nothing else until Valentines day. 

Shall I provide daily updates?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:38 | 5481341 TheFourthStooge-ing
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For the world the bottom-line remains that if  Iran does not halt and reverse its course any agreement means nothing.

Halt and reverse course on what, precisely? As a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, they have been doing exactly what the treaty explicitly permits them to do, all under the observation of IAEA inspectors.

Iran can ramp up its plans to develop a nuclear bomb at off site locations.

What plans? You must have an exclusive source of information considering that both US and Israeli intelligence have conceded that they have no evidence that Iran intends to militarize their nuclear research program.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:50 | 5481392 lester1
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Anyone else getting tired of using US taxpayer money to fly around Lurch (John Kerry) with ZERO tangible results??

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:56 | 5481640 tarabel
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If it keeps him out of this country, it seems like one of the government's wisest investments.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:40 | 5481845 Ignatius
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It takes money to keep a horse.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:38 | 5481142 ekm1
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Congress and Pentagon sabotaged the deal via Kerry. Obama has been subdued in my view.

 

Next: 

- Oil price collapse

- Removal of Assad

- Bombing of Iran nukes

 

These are inevitabilities

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:55 | 5481184 gatorengineer
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2 out of 3..... Israel wont do number 3....

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:57 | 5481191 ekm1
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Israel is a guinea pig.

Saudis are the real force

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:59 | 5481196 Infinite QE
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saudis are just zionists dressed in sheets.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:25 | 5481278 gatorengineer
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you need to differentiate between the house of Saad, and the Saudi People.....  BIGGGGG difference.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:07 | 5481442 Infinite QE
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Agree.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:07 | 5481212 blaireauhedge
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I tend to agree with your analysis.

Seems like no one, nothing, will stop the psychopaths in Washington and London.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:54 | 5481177 Wahooo
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Dies Iran have a central bank? If not they better get one fast.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:57 | 5481194 Infinite QE
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ZWO-owned, preferably.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:55 | 5481181 observer007
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Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:08 | 5481221 TeamDepends
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It was the Zionistas.  Exhibit A-Z:  The satellite picture of the jets shooting it down.  80% silver, 15% gold, 5% chocolate please.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:30 | 5481307 DutchR
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Don't forget the TP

Shit is flying all over

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:54 | 5481625 tarabel
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They have this thing called Photoshop. Or, as you might call it, magic.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:57 | 5481187 gatorengineer
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the Iranian, looks like he is holding out a handful of oats........

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 09:57 | 5481189 Infinite QE
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Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:48 | 5481593 tarabel
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BREAKING

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Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:00 | 5481199 Arbysauce
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This deters Israel from attacking Iran for another seven months. They might anyway, in which case they will be even more ostracized for doing it with talks underway.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:00 | 5481201 WTFUD
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Wish they'd frozen my wife's ass at 2000 levels.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:10 | 5481225 greatbeard
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>> my wife's ass at 2000 levels.

Enjoy it while you can.  Some day these will be the good old days and you'll wax poetic about the ass she has now.  The only way to stop a woman's ass from growing is to get a divorce.

 

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:23 | 5481270 falak pema
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In France the local Potus, Hollande, ditched his ex.

Didn't stop her monetary and Media ass from growing. She wrote a caustic book about her tenure as first lady in the wings; all 15 months of it.

Now she is a best selling author and u guys in the US will be buying her hot muffin called "thank you for this moment", like the Brits are doing today.

Some ladies have an ass like KK's....in her latest photo. 

Hell hath no fury...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:01 | 5481202 Debeachesand Je...
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The Iranians are taking a page from the way North Korea and North VietNam negotiated with America and it's Allies.

 

Talk with your foes but still wage war etc.....

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:04 | 5481204 Ms No
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"We have to remember that Russia is an important part of the international system and therfore useful in solving all sorts of other crises, for example in the agreement on nuclear proliferation with Iran or over Syria,"  "This has to have preference over tactical escalation in a specific case."  - Kissinger

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:04 | 5481206 falak pema
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Pax Americana raises the WHITE flag on IRan; given the ominous threat now visible in black flagged Mosul/ Abu Ghraib/Raqqa, direct result of its past hubris in Sunni radical Syrac.

US hegemony in tatters, Ayatollah Iran is now perceived as a more reliable partner for West than Salafist Saud/Syrac.

Whence the undeclared commodity war by the Sunni monarchies on their "ex" ally.

Wow, wow, wow...game changer. ---You can see that Bibi in Jerusalem is going pale around the gills as collateral fall out of this decision < "I so want to bomb those Iranis... who hate us! Why oh why is Potus walking away from us! Next u know the EU will recognise Palestine."

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:05 | 5481208 Dre4dwolf
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Rumors are Iran pretty much said they have nukes already, and have had nukes and delivery systems for some time... and now they are playing control the news.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:06 | 5481209 youngman
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This is one of the oldest negoitating ploys ever...stall.....and that is exactly what they are doing.....whats another year or two in a Nuke development....it means success....We are so weak now.....all we have is the banks now...we are fighting with our banks...lol...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:51 | 5481393 ebworthen
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North Korea plays the same game.

How much you want to bet a good chunk of that $700 million/month goes Russia's way?  Not that it bothers me.

Another John Kerry "success"; give him some oats.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:41 | 5481345 DutchR
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Eh wazz tis,, clickbait?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:48 | 5481592 Bankster Kibble
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Interesting developments.  I guess Iran will really be considered "back in the club" if they cut off contracts with Russia.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:17 | 5481240 Son of Captain Nemo
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Time for "John mouth" at the State Department in a deliberately overt and desperate last attempt to pull China back into it's orbit to side with the EU/NATO cabal on sanctions against Russia...  To China you abstain from Russian oil and gas deals and trading in Roubles and Yuan and we won't start something with Iran!...  What a wonderful "carrot"???...

Ain't gonna work. 

And when Johnny comes home with the "bad news" again this is when we will see more shit go down in Syria and Ukraine!

Good thing I'm stocking up on my Paco Rabanne sunblock 10,000 with lead in it for the upcoming party when the "trifecta cabal" decides to go really ape shit and starts what they won't finish.

Hope these two incidents furnish careful reflection to perhaps think twice!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:13 | 5481243 SheepDog-One
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What do we do with this guy.....feed him some oats or something?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:28 | 5481295 q99x2
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In the queen's cave all is forgotten.

Long live Einie Khomeinie, Miny and Moe.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:41 | 5481350 Ms No
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Something is very wrong about this.  War is deception.  Iran has probably been in the pocket all along.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:10 | 5481452 TweedleDeeDooDah
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"Let's take things slow... we still have to text Chickenshit over in Israel that about still breaking up with him... he'll likely take it badly, but by July, we'll be able to announce our engagemnet and upcoming baby at the same time. We've always loved each other, and now is the best time to really try to make this work again."

Obama's "secret letter" to Iran

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:14 | 5481467 CaptainMoonlight
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It's obvious that Kerry has a vagina.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:31 | 5481538 roadhazard
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The US has no argument when Iran is surrounded with nations with nukes. That has always been the bottom line.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:58 | 5481645 livefreediefree
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After Obama leaves the Presidency, will he remember Iran getting the bomb as his greatest accomplishment?

No? Well, let's posit a hypothesis: Obama wants Iran to acquire the bomb? Now, let's examine the evidence. (Cue Jeopardy music). Yep, the hypothesis is validated.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:05 | 5481675 Ms No
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If you look at relations between Iran and the US since Bush II it's all sabre rattling.  The 06 sanctions were impotent and backdoors left wide open, this is all BS.  Either they caved or it was a ruse all along.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:12 | 5481696 Jonathan Equine...
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The Jewish/Zionist lobby is working extra hard to make sure no deal happens.

This isn't about nukes - that's a complete ruse.  Iran is not working on one, yet Netanyahu has been crying wolf about it for 20 years - all while building dozens more of his own and putting them on subs.

 

No, Iran is both a military check on Israel to the east, supports the Hezbollah resistance, and - is an economic rival - gas, nanodiamonds, and indeed nuclear medicine, etc.

Iran is a problem for the "Greater Israel" plan, and the Jewish Zionists simply want to kill as many people in the middle east as they can with American blood and treasure - because while ol' Yahweh "chose" them, apparently he's too much of a limp dick to do any work Herself.

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:49 | 5482026 Ms No
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All true, but who is to say that the bastards that be didn't learn a valuable lesson from the whole Shah debacle and implant a less obvious tyrant.  It worked so perfectly for the US with the Bush/ Obama "change" ruse.  Maybe Amedenajad has sold out or was an implant to begin with and the military check on Israel is non existant except in rhetoric.  I haven't found any true evidence of a sever pinch of any kind on Iran as of late,  State Dept numbers aside.  Maybe it's ALL about Russia.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:19 | 5481727 livefreediefree
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The Obama administration's modus operandi is to win today's news cycle. Thus, it is no coincidence that Hagel's firing happened the same day as the collapse of the Iranian nuclear talks.

To women, what would be more interesting? A firing, or the cessation of talks.

Thank the Lord the feminine perspectives dominates the MSM. We're so much better for it.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:30 | 5481790 Martian Moon
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Russia has just signed a contract with Iran to build it 7 more nuclear plants

Not sure what these talks are meant to accomplish, other than cover for the political class

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:37 | 5481832 Eyeroller
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TOTAL SURRENDER TO IRAN.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:46 | 5481867 Mac Avelli
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Chuck's firing =above the fold

American collapse on Iran Nuke deal = below the fold

Move along, folks! Free ice cream tomorrow!!

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