US ambassador: Missile shield project will continue

Outgoing US Ambassador Stephen Mull reassured Poland that the US will not cancel its plans to erect a missile shield in the country despite the nuclear agreement reached with Iran this week, the Polish Press Agency reported. The missile shield, which will be constructed in Redzikowo, will still serve to protect NATO countries from Iranian missiles. The missile shield deal was originally signed by the Bush administration, but was later suspended by the Obama administration in 2009. A new deal, signed in 2010, stipulated that the US will station SM-3 missile ballistic missile interceptors in Poland. The project should be completed in 2018.