Iran's reversal of nuclear weapons plan will lift need for missile shield - Obama

MOSCOW July 7 (Interfax-AVN) - If Iran gives up the plan to create nuclear weapons, no reasons will remain for developing a missile defense system, U.S. President Barack Obama said.

If the programs connected with nuclear weapons in Iran disappear, the reasons for creating a missile shield will disappear, Obama told graduates of the Russian School of Economics in Moscow on Tuesday.