The Moscow Times, an English-language newspaper, reports that the the issue of the Iran Non-proliferation Act and its affect on NASA will be a topic of discussion at a meeting tomorrow between President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin:
Putin and Bush will brainstorm on how to circumvent a U.S. law to allow NASA to pay the Federal Space Agency to launch cargo and astronauts to the international space station, Kommersant reported. The law restricts payments to Russia made in connection with the space station unless the United States confirms that Russia has not transferred banned technology to Iran in the previous 12 months.
The choice of language isn’t ideal (“circumvent” a law doesn’t have positive connotations), but at least the problem is on their radars.
I’m sure that these old pals can come up with something.