IMO, all of this agitprop is a sign that Obama is going to bow to the mullahs to include them in an Axis with Gulf Arabs to sink Russian budget via oil market and it is how they are prepping a public opinion.
It is not that I disagree with the factual component of this article and that Iran has a potential to become friendly with the West, but here is why they do brings it out.
Could be. But, the thing is, we don't need Iran included to sink Russia. The present direction of the oil market, with Saudi Arabia apparently unwilling to cut output, can do that itself.