co-operation on stopping Iran getting a nuclear bomb?

Dear Mr Putin, would you like to come back to our NATO meetings? How about we scrap the plans for missile defence? Tell you what, we'll throw in a few tasty trade deals at a cost to you my droog of...ooh shall we say full co-operation on stopping Iran getting a nuclear bomb? Deal or no deal? Well we'll have to wait to see because the Russians are good enough at chess not to make any serious moves until President Obama makes his. He's the man with his finger on the button, and he's pressed pause, but not for long. One way or another, the reckoning with Iran is approaching, and the Americans want to know how much help or hindrance the Russians will provide when the going gets tough. President Obama has moved his pieces around on the Iranian/US board. Queen Hillary has invited Tehran to an Afghanistan conference, Bishop Dennis Ross is the new envoy, but the King has yet to make his move. He's waiting for a ‘Review of Iran Policy’ to land on his desk by the end of the month, and then for a meeting with the Russians in early April. After that we will see which carrots and sticks Mr Obama will be wielding to prevent an Iranian bomb, something he has says would set off a ‘‘profoundly destabilizing arms race in the region’’, and something the Iranians deny they are attempting to make.