Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Russia officially reneges on S-300 SAM sale to Iran

According to the Associated Press:

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issued a decree Wednesday banning all sales of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran. Russia signed a 2007 contract to sell the sophisticated systems that could boost Iran's ability to defend against air strikes. Israel and the United States have objected to the deal, and no such missiles have been delivered yet. Medvedev's decree also prohibited exports of tanks, aircraft and sea vessels to Iran.

This was not unexpected. If anything it comes as a relief of sorts to the Iranians, as the matter is no longer subject to open-ended limbo. The Iranians will likely receive their money back, possibly with a penalty sum attached for nondelivery. Meanwhile, continued development of an Iranian equivilant, the IR-300, is on-going according to Iranian defense officials.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Comes as a relief of sorts to the Iranians and the World... everyone wins. (*-*)/

Anonymous said...

Now if Russia will retract her offer to provide fissionable materials to Iran, we will have real cause to celebrate.

Anonymous said...

Russia is not a friend to Israel or the West and I trust Putin as much as I trust Amadinajad. Putin will sell the weapons systems to Syria who will then sell them to a different arab terrorist state and then they will magically appear in Iran's arsenal.

Anonymous said...

I think Putin got a glimpse of what the future could do to Russia if it's true what they say about the world's first cyber super weapons that the west are supposedly working on and what some people believe is the reason for the delay of the Bushehr startup date expected in late August. Rumours have already suggested that the plant has already been wrecked by this super weapon... we'll see if it starts up in a few months or not, meanwhile Iran blames the delay on hot weather.

Anonymous said...

Russia has been undressed,
and now waiting and shaking to see who comes into the room from AMERICAAAAAAA

Illuminati

Anonymous said...

It aint going to be a spineless anti American liberal hoax like the one we have in there now I can guarantee.