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President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree banning all sales of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran as well as the export of tanks, aircraft and sea vessels to the nation in acceptance of the latest round of UN sanctions.  President Obama has praised the long-hoped-for decision.  Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has pledged that this will not put a halt to military cooperation between Tehran and Moscow.  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council that the US and Russia are not ‘adversaries’ and that renewed cooperation between the treaty organization and the Kremlin is to be strived for, particularly on the issues of missile defense in Europe and the CFE treaty, which Russia opted out of three years ago.  How convinced is Russia? wonders RFE/RL.