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| Russia Offers Iran New Missiles despite Sanctions |
| 2015-02-24 |
| [AnNahar] Russia has offered Iran advanced surface-to-air missiles after scrapping a similar deal in 2010 because of U.N. sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program, the state defense company said Monday. Any such a deal is likely to go down badly in Washington as Western countries seek to keep up the pressure on Iran to agree a comprehensive deal on its nuclear activities. Sergei Chemezov, head of the Rostec corporation which manages Russia's defence industry, said Moscow has offered to supply Antey-2500 missiles, an upgraded version of the S-300 air defence system that figured in the previous contract. "We have offered them the Antey-2500," Chemezov was quoted as saying by RIA-Novosti news agency. But he added: "The decision has not been made yet." Moscow signed a contract in 2007 to deliver S-300 missiles to Iran worth $800 million. The deal was intensely criticised by the United States and Israel, and Moscow later dropped it as being in breach of U.N. sanctions. A U.N. resolution adopted in 2010 bans the supply, sale or transfer to Iran of missiles or missiles systems. Chemezov said the Antey-2500 is a more modern version of the S-300, which Russia no longer makes. The same surface-to-air missiles were reportedly delivered to Venezuela in 2013. Now under Western sanctions itself over the conflict in Ukraine, Russia -- a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council -- has strengthened its alliance with Iran. During a visit to Tehran by Russia's defense minister last month, the two countries signed a military cooperation agreement touted as a joint response to U.S. "interference". |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Kinda naive for anyone to think that Russia gives a damn about the UN sanctions. |
| Posted by: chris 2015-02-24 19:20 |
| #2 Did they tell the mullahs to whom they subcontracted the software? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-02-24 14:36 |
| #1 Russia aligning itself with Iran? Interesting. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-02-24 12:48 |