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By Angela Stent, professor of Government...
the U.S., Russia and the EU-3 united in the IAEA on censuring Iran and they agree that Iran’s nuclear program must remain civilian. Yet Russian officials have made contradictory statements about whether they will support tougher sanctions and this issue could further strain the reset in the coming months.START: the two sides have been close to agreement for some time, but contentious issues remain—telemetry and the relationship between offensive and defensive arms. The new math in the U.S. Senate—where the Obama administration lost its filibuster-proof majority last week after a Republican was elected to fill Senator Edward Kennedy’s Massachusetts seat—puts more pressure from the U.S side to conclude an agreement that will be domestically acceptable. But, in his January 27 State of the Union speech, Obama highlighted conluding a post-START agreement as a foreign policy priority.