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U.S. President Donald Trump has said he would be willing to hold talks with the Islamic Republic.
"Dialogue and negotiation can be held when we have a certain agenda in place and when we could get some tangible and practical results out of it," Mousavi said in a news conference broadcast live on Press TV.
He added: "They are not for talks. They are not seeking dialogue."
"A frail old man, unable to remember things, stumbling, refusing to answer basic questions," tweeted liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore after the circus had ended. "I said it in 2017 and Mueller confirmed it today — All you pundits and moderates and lame Dems who told the public to put their faith in the esteemed Robert Mueller — just STFU from now on."
"Much as I hate to say it, this morning's hearing was a disaster," tweeted virulent Russiagater Laurence Tribe. "Far from breathing life into his damning report, the tired Robert Mueller sucked the life out of it. The effort to save democracy and the rule of law from this lawless president has been set back, not advanced."
"On the optics, this was a disaster," summarized NBC's Chuck Todd.
As you'd expect, this widespread sentiment is shared by Trump himself, who told reporters after the hearing that "We had a very good day today."
The Obama administration allocated $1.8 billion of its 2009 stimulus to Baltimore, including $26.5 million to address crime prevention, $26 million to revamp abandoned properties, and $9.5 million to address homelessness.
According to The Washington Free Beacon, which conducted an analysis of the investment in 2015 after Obama decried Republicans for stiff-arming attempts to make "massive investments in urban communities," the city received $1.8 billion, with $8.4 million going to a single zip code.
The Return of Professor Joseph Mifsud, International Man of Mystery!
The night before Robert Mueller's long awaited Congressional testimony, reporter John Solomon of The Hill broke a very important story.
Several different sources have related to the veteran reporter that the team of investigators assembled by US Attorney John Durham - who has been tasked by Attorney General William Barr with looking into how the FBI handled it's investigation of the Trump/Russia collusion allegations - had reached out earlier this summer to a key figure at the center of the SpyGate scandal : Professor Joseph Mifsud.
"While most of the political world focused its attention elsewhere, special prosecutor John Durham's team quietly reached out this summer to a lawyer representing European academic Joseph Mifsud, one of the earliest and most mysterious figures in the now closed Russia-collusion case."
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The prominent protest organizer is currently under administrative arrest, to which he was sentenced last Wednesday for calling on supporters to take part in an unsanctioned rally. On Sunday morning, Navalny was moved to a nearby hospital from the detention facility where he is serving his term, after developing a rash and swelling on his face.
The activist was diagnosed with an acute "allergic reaction", Dr. Eldar Kazakhmedov, who works in the therapeutic ward where Navalny was placed, told Interfax. Kazakhmedov said that the medics couldn't immediately say what caused it.
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"We may not have won the battle of impeachment," Deutsch squealed, "but we're going to win the war of putting him in jail — whatever we have to do, and we're not going to necessarily play fair."
So what you have here is an anchor for a major cable news outlet assuring everyone that when it comes to putting an individual in prison, "we're not going to ... play fair."
This is how far gone the media now are... So angry, so bitter, so demoralized, such a sorry gang of sore losers that they are now promising to put a man in prison, a sitting president, a family man — and, if necessary, rig the proceedings to make it happen.

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats • Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Tex)
The change at the helms of the US intelligence appears to have been brewing for some time already. Coats has told Trump his decision to "step down fairly soon" last week, Reuters reported, citing a "source with direct knowledge."
At the same time, the US President has been already seeking a replacement for Coats and reportedly met Ratcliffe to discuss the details of the job, Axios and The New York Times reported.
Comment: More from RT: Trump taps Rep. John Ratcliffe as Coats' replacement for Director of National Intelligence
US President Donald Trump has nominated Congressman John Ratcliffe (Tx-R) for the position of the Director of National Intelligence, confirming that the incumbent DNI chief, Dan Coats, is set to leave the office in two weeks.Trump watched Ratcliffe grill Mueller (and thus defend him) in Congress last week:
Trump's first term has been incredible on a number of levels, not least because the administration has seen so many people come and go!
The president's critics say that that's down to his character. It is, in a sense, but it's also down to the paucity of capable people in Swampland...
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Sputnik: Will Boris Johnson's new cabinet be able to deliver Brexit by October the 31st?
Alistair Jones: Boris Johnson is certainly of the belief that his cabinet will do so, and if you look at the membership of the cabinet; all of them have committed themselves to accepting a no-deal Brexit by the 31st of October if a deal cannot be sorted, so they would expect that.
The problem is that the mathematics in parliament are actually worse for Boris Johnson than they were for Theresa May, so if he goes to the EU and gets some tweaks to her deal, he's still got to get it through parliament, and the numbers just don't stack up.
However, in Boris's favour on this, we have a clear situation which says that if there is no extension, and if there is no revoking of Article Fifty, we leave on the 31st of October, so it's a default position and on that position Boris is correct, yes we are going to leave.
The president hailed Johnson's "familiarity with relations between Iran and the United Kingdom,"apparently referring to his tenure as foreign secretary. Rouhani also said in a statement released by the presidential office that he hopes this knowledge would help the new prime minister to "greatly contribute to removing the existing obstacles on the path of development of relations between the two countries" and "further deepen bilateral and multilateral relations."
In his capacity as foreign secretary, Johnson visited Iran only once - in 2017. That two-day visit ended without any significant breakthroughs, although he said after his meeting with Rouhani that London and Tehran agreed on their desire to remove "all obstacles in the Anglo-Iranian relationship" - a phrase which the Iranian president apparently referred to in his own address.

American-born news anchor Marzieh Hashemi • US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
According to IRNA on Sunday, Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabie said that formerly-detained Press TV reporter Ms Marzieh Hashemi "can go and interview (Pompeo)" so he can explain the "economic terrorism" imposed on Iran by the US.
He said that Iran does not "shy away from hearing what people say, (even though) what they did to our reporters... is an insult to both the media and discussions."
The move comes after Pompeo told Bloomberg on Thursday that he would "happily" travel to Iran to use Iranian national TV as a platform to explain the reasons for US-imposed sanctions on the country.
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- Another political prisoner: Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman blasts US detention of PressTV anchor Marzieh Hashemi
- US releases detained Iranian journalist Marzieh Hashemi after federal grand jury appearance













Comment: Iran has made it very clear they are willing to work toward a peaceful resolution, but those controlling the US have also made it clear that they are unwilling to revise their plans for world domination. However, it may be that the US, eventually, won't have much choice but to concede: 'We Are The Vaccine Against The Cancer of Unilateralism' - Delegates From 120 Nations Meet in Venezuela to Plot Escape From U$ Hegemony
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