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Report Says Obama Offered To Kill European Missile Defense System If Russia Helps Curb Iran

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Monday, March 2nd, 2009

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Report Appeared In Russian Paper President Obama offered to kill plans to build the European Missile Defense (EMD) system if Russia would help the United States force Iran to abandon its nuclear program, according to a report in the Russian Kommersant newspaper, Fox News stated. Russian leaders including President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimr Putin have blasted the EMD system to defeat Iranian missiles, saying it really would be an attempt to defeat Russian ICBMs, as we reported previously.…

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