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What recent developments are occurring in Iran regarding protests?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. President Trump says Tehran is asked to set up negotiations over the widespread protests engulfing Iran. He said a meeting could be arranged, but Trump would not rule out U.S. strikes against Iran before that. NPR's Jackie Northam has more.
President Trump said the U.S. might have to act before any meeting with Tehran because of, quote, what's happening in Iran. Thousands of protesters poured into the streets in all corners of the country. Videos of large crowds, burning buildings, and dead bodies in the street and morgues were posted on social media despite an ongoing internet and cell phone blackout.
Tehran has not publicly said anything about a meeting with the U.S., Earlier on Sunday, a senior member of Iran's parliament warned that U.S. bases and ships in the region would be legitimate targets for preemptive strikes if it looked as though the U.S. would attack. But Iran's military capabilities were badly weakened during the 12-day war with Israel last June. Jackie Northam, NPR News.
Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell says the Justice Department sent the nation's central bank a subpoena last Friday It's over the Fed's building renovations of its offices in Washington, D.C. Powell says the Justice Department also threatened a criminal indictment.
He released a video statement yesterday saying these are all pretexts to force the Fed to cave to President Trump's views on interest rates.
The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the president.
This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions, or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation.
Powell says he will continue to do his job as Fed chair. Nurses are walking the picket lines in New York City this morning. Some 15,000 are on strike against several major hospitals that their union says are the most wealthy facilities. NPR's Kristen Wright reports this is one of the largest nursing strikes ever in the city.
Nurses from five hospitals in New York walked off the job. They want to preserve health care benefits, safer staffing, and protections from workplace violence. A man with a sharp object barricaded himself in a hospital room in Brooklyn and was shot and killed by police last week. Darla Joyner is on the picket lines. She's been a nurse for 12 years and is part of the union's bargaining committee.
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