[Iran Press TV Latest] Poland has received American assurance that it would receive an air defense battery armed with 100 missiles.
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A Polish delegation to Washington recently clinched US assurances for the deployment of the Patriot air-defense missiles, Polish radio station RMF FM said on Tuesday.
According to May remarks by Deputy Polish Defense Minister Stanislaw Komorowski, the same number of American personnel will also be deployed alongside the apparatus. "We expect the Patriot battery to be deployed on Polish soil by the end of 2009, as initially agreed with the Americans," he had said then.
Komorowski had also mentioned that the missiles were to be temporarily put on the Polish soil until 2012, when they would be permanently based.
US had previously planned to set up 10 of the batteries in Poland, based on the claim that they would head off alleged 'threats from Iran and North Korea.' Washington scrapped the plan recently, bowing to criticism from Russia, which had denounced the move as a security threat.
While arguing in favor of the installation of a single battery, however, the Polish official claimed "...there is no reason to think the threat from Iran has grown smaller since last year."
This is while The Islamic Republic has, on numerous occasions, stressed that its missile capabilities only serve defensive purposes. Moscow has likewise ruled out the potential for an 'Iranian threat.' |