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| Russia 'will' deliver S-300 to Iran in 2 months | |
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| Topic Started: Nov 29 2009, 02:51 AM (83 Views) | |
| Wil | Nov 29 2009, 02:51 AM Post #1 |
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If so than we know by when Iran will be hit. http://www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=208862 Russia 'will' deliver S-300 to Iran in 2 months Russia has ensured that it will honor a deal providing Iran with the S-300 sophisticated anti-aircraft system, Tehran's envoy to Moscow says. Mohammad-Reza Sajjadi on Friday rejected reports that Russia had pulled out of the deal due to a delay in the delivery of the system to Iran. ""We had heard reports that Russia would not deliver these systems to Iran, but we asked the Russian side and they denied it,"" he told reporters in Moscow. ""The delivery deadline has already passed, but the Russian side has cited technical problems which it said it was working on to fix,"" Sajjadi added. ""We feel that this question will be resolved within one to two months."" He said neither Iran nor Russia planned to ""go back"" on the contract, which he said was ""profitable"" for both sides. Russia's procrastination over the delivery of the advanced system to Iran has drawn harsh criticism from officials in Tehran. Earlier this month, Chief of Staff of Iran's Joint Armed Forces Hassan Firouzabadi questioned Moscow's motivation for the delay. He said under a contract signed between the two countries, the Russian government was expected to supply Iran with the system aimed at boosting the country's defensive capabilities. ""The delivery is more than six months overdue,"" the top official said, urging Russia to expedite the process of delivery. Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi also said that Russia had a ""contractual obligation"" to provide Iran with the system. ""We have made a deal with the Kremlin to buy S-300 defense missiles,"" he said, referring to a contract signed between Tehran and Moscow in 2007. ""We don't think Russian officials would want to be seen in the world as contract violators,"" he added. Iran has been trying to obtain the sophisticated defense system to improve its deterrence power in reaction to Israeli war rhetoric. According to Western experts, the S-300 missile defense system would shield Iranian nuclear sites against any Israeli airstrike. The S-300 system, which can track targets and fire at aircraft 120 km (75 miles) away, features high jamming immunity and is able to simultaneously engage up to 100 targets. |
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| Israeli | Nov 29 2009, 03:17 AM Post #2 |
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So who was it that reported that they would not deliver the S-300s? The media is working to so completely confuse and demoralize the public. You can see that "the prince of the power of the air" is in control of the msm. We have to use severe discernment when reading it. |
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| w8n4him | Nov 29 2009, 09:17 AM Post #3 |
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Here's one article. I do remember reading about this a while back. Russian missile defence to Iran on hold till meeting with Obama permalinke-mail story to a friendprint versionPublished 17 February, 2009, 12:37 Russian authorities have put on hold a secret contract with Iran. The contract, which is believed to have been signed in 2005, planned to arm the Islamic Republic with the famous S-300 air-defence missile systems The latest move comes ahead of talks between the Russian and American presidents set for April 2009. Iran’s defence minister Mostafa Mohammad Hajjar, a veteran of the Revolutionary Guards of Iran, arrived in Moscow on Monday for talks on the supply of Russian arms to Iran, particularly the S-300 systems. However, as reported in Kommersant daily, Moscow will not deliver the missile systems for some time,at least not before the first meeting of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and American counterpart Barack Obama, a historic event widely expected to melt the ice in Russia-US relations and restart a dialogue between the two sides. Iran does not follow resolutions of the UN Security Council concerning its nuclear programme and that fact alone is enough to put Russia in an awkward position if it delivers S-300s to Iran now. So far, Moscow and Tehran have fulfilled only one contract in air defence dating back to 2005 when Russia sold Iran 29 Thor-M1 middle-range missile air-defence systems for US$700 million. Read more Since then, Tehran has showed intense interest in S-300 systems and even signed a secret contract for delivery of 5 divisions of S-300s for US$800 million. But despite the fact that the contract has been initialised and Iran expresses its readiness to pay, Moscow has delayed the supply for political reasons as the question of arming Iran with the newest defence systems greatly alarms America’s principle Middle East ally, Israel. Nerves of nylon, nerves of steel It’s not just once that the Iranian authorities have jumped the gun and declared that S-300s have already been delivered and deployed, claims always refuted by Russia. The last such instance was on December 22, 2008. Iran desperately needs the S-300s to protect the almost completed Bushehr nuclear power plant, which is likely to be a high priority target in the event of military conflict with Israel. If S-300 systems are deployed near Bushehr, Israel will be unable to conduct air strikes without response as it did in 1981, when it destroyed a nuclear reactor in Iraq, as well as in 2007, when it took out a supposedly nuclear target in Syria. At the same time Russian experts doubt whether Israel would dare to conduct an air strike against Iranian nuclear targets. “Israel does not have a reason for such an assault since Iran does not have and, in the near future, will not have nuclear arms, and the US seems to be looking for a political resolution with Iran, Israel will not do the dirty on Obama’s administration,” says political analyst Aleksandr Pikayev from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. Russia does not supply only military products to Iran. The construction of a nuclear power plant in Bushehr is just another example for this. “For Russia, Iran is a friendly state. Russia is in constant dialogue with Iran, advising it to comply with its international obligations. Clever people in Washington understand that Russia has vast interests in Iran because it is an ally and strategic friend and neighbour, so it is natural that Russia extends some commercial projects in Iran,” commented military expert Viktor Mizin from the Moscow Institute of International Affairs. It is true that five S-300 missile systems could secure the skies above Bushehr nuclear power plant, but it looks really doubtful that Moscow will put at risk the opportunity of improving the severely damaged relations with Washington. This means that this time the Iranian delegation may leave Moscow without any tangible results. However, the political situation is subject to change, which means that the fate of Iranian air defence literally depends on what Barack Obama has to propose to Dmitry Medvedev in April this year. “There is no doubt that the deadlock of Iran’s nuclear programme will be among the top priorities at these talks and that this question definitely needs re-examination from both the US and Iran to bring positive results,” says Pikaev. In turn, it is obvious that American leadership is planning to take a diplomatic pause till June when Iran will elect a new president and if it turns out to be someone less irreconcilable like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, then the US will deal directly with the Iranian authorities. Iran’s defence minister Mostafa Mohammad Hajjar, a veteran of the Revolutionary Guards of Iran, arrived in Moscow on Monday for talks on the supply of Russian arms to Iran, particularly the S-300 systems. However, as reported in Kommersant daily, Moscow will not deliver the missile systems for some time,at least not before the first meeting of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and American counterpart Barack Obama, a historic event widely expected to melt the ice in Russia-US relations and restart a dialogue between the two sides. Iran does not follow resolutions of the UN Security Council concerning its nuclear programme and that fact alone is enough to put Russia in an awkward position if it delivers S-300s to Iran now. So far, Moscow and Tehran have fulfilled only one contract in air defence dating back to 2005 when Russia sold Iran 29 Thor-M1 middle-range missile air-defence systems for US$700 million. http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-02-17/Russian_missile_defence_to_Iran_on_hold_till_meeting_with_Obama.html Edited by w8n4him, Nov 29 2009, 09:28 AM.
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Isaiah 57:1The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. 2He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. Isaiah 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. | |
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