Last Sunday, while returning home from Pakistan aboard Air Force One, President Bush received a telephone call from his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. The two men dis-cussed several issues that threaten to disrupt U.S.-Russian solidarity in the war on terror--foremost, Russia's dip-lomatic support for Iran in the dis-pute over its nuclear program at the IAEA, and its decision to welcome Hamas, which recently won control of the Palestinian parliament, to Mos-cow.

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