According to the Russian News Agency, President Obama has told Moscow that Russian help in resolving Iran’s nuclear program would make its missile shield plans for Europe unnecessary.

This is beyond insane.  Russia has been supplying, supporting, and upholding Iran’s nuclear program.  No agreement is going to make them stop.  The theory in dropping the missle shield is that if Iran does not have nuclear capability, the shield is not necessary.  Remember that rather odd missle strike in Syria by Israel a year or so ago that the Arab states were very quiet about–no real protesting or condemnation of Israel.  When the UN investigated they found that the site was radioactive.  Evidently Syria was working on its own bomb.  Iran has been much more open about their ‘right’ to nuclear ‘energy’.  Russia has been fairly open about helping them–why do we think an agreement would be worth the paper it is written on?  By the time we realize that Iran has nukes (which it is probably very close to), we won’t have time to get a missle shield up in Europe and we will play the game of nuclear blackmail.   A missle sheild is defensive–not offensive, so why is Russia so concerned?  This is definitely one of the dumber moves on the part of the new administration.