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The Barack Obama administration's decision to cancel missile defense program in Europe will have a positive impact on relations between Russia and the United States, and perhaps help Iran to come to a consensus with the West, experts believe.
"The U.S.'s new approach will be welcomed by both the Europeans and the Russians and would help all the parties develop and maintain a common approach on the Iranian issue, and this, in turn, would minimize the ability of the Iranian Government to play one side against the other," Director on International Relations at University of Virginia (U.S.).

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Russia pushed back on Tuesday at U.S. efforts to threaten tough new sanctions if Iran fails to prove that its nuclear program is peaceful, a setback to the Obama administration's desire to present a united front with Moscow.
After meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow believed that such threats would not persuade Iran to comply and that negotiations should continue to be pursued.
"At the current stage, all forces should be thrown at supporting the negotiating process," he told reporters at a joint news conference with Clinton. "Threats, sanctions and threats of pressure in the current situation, we are convinced, would be counterproductive."