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After years of intense negotiations between the United States, Poland and the Czech Republic, the new US administration has decided to scrap the controversial Bush-era plans for a missile defence shield in Central Europe. Foreign policy experts already saw the writing on the wall: President Barack Obama launched an in-depth review of the threat posed by Iran's ballistic missile programme soon after his inauguration, and the Kremlin leaked information back in February that the new US administration was approaching Moscow with an offer to scrap missile defence in return for greater Russian cooperation on Iran.