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WASHINGTON -Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s failure to win Russian support for tougher talk on Iran exposed a divide between the two powers on how best to push Iran into accepting limits on its nuclear ambitions.
The setback does not doom the Obama administration’s hopes for diplomatic progress this year on Iran. Nor does it nix another high-priority administration goal: reversing a recent slump in relations with Moscow.
But it muddies the outlook for persuading Iran that painful penalties loom if the regime fails to satisfy U.S. and international concerns that its nuclear program is aimed at building atomic weapons.

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Here is some of what we know.

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The question is with President Obama and Secretary Clinton seemingly giving the Russians everything they want, what is America getting in return?

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