RUSSIA AND IRAN, TOGETHER AGAIN – AT 9:16 A.M. ET:   The reset button that Obama and Hillary Clinton pushed with Russia is popping out again...every day.  And Iran is Russia's best buddy in the Mideast.  From Reuters: 

Iran and Russia have signed an agreement to build two more nuclear power plants in the southern Iranian city of Bushehr, Iranian Press TV reported on Wednesday.

Atomic Energy Organization of Iran officials and Russia's Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation negotiated and came to an agreement about the plants, said the spokesman for the AEOI.

Russia built the first reactor at Bushehr, Iran's sole nuclear power plant. The new facilities will be built next to the existing plant.

The agreement also includes the construction of two desalination plants.

In February, the Iranian ambassador to Moscow Mehdi Sanaei said that Russia could build a second reactor at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant in exchange for Iranian oil.

Reuters reported Iran and Russia were negotiating to swap up to 500,000 barrels of oil per day for goods in the deal that would undermine Western efforts to maintain economic pressure on Tehran while global powers seek to curb its nuclear program.

COMMENT:  That last point is key.  The Iranians are out-negotiating us, with Russian help.  And yet the president does not seem to understand what is happening, or maybe just doesn't care. 

These events make it even more imperative that our side take control of the Senate in November.  The president conducts foreign policy, but the Senate has more influence over that policy than does the House.  And it also decides on treaties.

March 12, 2014