>> barbara slavin from the atlantic council, good to see you again. i wanted you to talk a little bit about the relationship that's developed with the russians in the arms control process, and the russians now have putin again as president. how do you see cooperation over iran developing? do you see this arms control process might bleed into other issues with the russians, or 0 are you concerned that putin may play the nationalism card harder than medvedev did? >> as far as russian policy is concerned, i see a great deal of consistency, frankly. and if you're interested in the official russian articulation of their policy, it's very useful to look at, first of all, the remarks that putin published -- they were published under his name in some of the top russian newspapers right before the election. also he put 0 out an election platform and since that time he has -- his administration has published a foreign policy -- their first foreign policy statement of policy after he entered into the presidency. and there's an emphasis in each of those documents

>> barbara slavin from the atlantic council.th all due respect, army, we understand that iran is cleansing parchin and has been working fastidiously to clean the site. so we talk about establishing trust, ambassador mousavian, and this is not something that engenders much trust among the p5+1. it seems that what you're saying is that iran is going to trade an agreement with the iaea for something at moscow, but obviously we have a disconnect because once dashed that what the p5+1 is saying is they want action on 20% in return for some action at moscow. so if you could address the disconnect, do you see that there's any possibility that perhaps your proposal or something like it could be agreed to on the 20%? or are they just going to go round and round on the right to enrich? >> in the middle. i'd like to follow up on what daryl's question and ask a slightly different way. the meeting of amano in tehran before baghdad, e.u. three plus one meeting, don't materialize. at the upcoming meeting is again going to raise great expectati

>> barbara slavin from the atlantic council.with all due respect, i mean, we understand that iran is cleansing and has been working assiduously to clean its size. when we talk about establishing trust, ambassador mousavian, this is not something that engenders must trust among the community of p5+1. it seems what you're saying is iran is going to trade an agreement with the iaea for something at moscow, but obviously we had a disconnect because what the p5+1 is saying is that they want action on 20%. in return were some action at moscow. so if you could address this disconnect, do you see that there's any possibility that perhaps your proposal or something like it could be agreed to on the 20%? or are they just going to go round and round in circles on the right to enrich? >> in the middle. [inaudible] >> i want to follow up and asked the question in a slightly different way. the meeting of tehran before the baghdad e.u. plus one, don't materialize. the upcoming meeting is again going to raise great expectations, the moscow meet

>> barbara slain from the -- slavin from the atlantic council.h all due respect, we understand that iran is cleansing and be has been working assiduously to clean the site. so when we talk about establishing trust, ambassador, this is not something that engenders much trust among the p5 +1. um, it seems that what you're saying is that iran is going to trade an agreement with the iaea for something at moscow, but obviously we have a disconnect because what the p5 +1 is saying is that they want on action on 20% in return for some action at moscow. so if you could address this disconnect, do you see that there's any possibility that perhaps your proposal or something like it could be agreed to on the 20%, or are they just going to go round and round on circle on the right to enrich? thanks. >> we'll treat that as one question. in the middle. oh? >> [inaudible] milton hoenig, i want to follow up on daryl's question and ask it a slightly different way. the meeting of amano in tehran before the baghdad e.u.3 +1 meeting raised questions that weren't mat