TheImmortal
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I mean the term of 5 years delay was voluntarily chosen by our team. Even China and Russia were complaining about it but our team willingly trusted western side. They shouldve insisted on removing arms embargo immediately right after signing the deal. BTW, it's in the past bro, i hope you were right. Otherwise that's a big loss.
It was chosen due to mixture of naiveness/inexperience of negotiating team as well as the thinking it's still probably improbable that Russia or a China would sell iran weapons wether the embargo was lifted sooner.
I have my doubts that Iran will acquire substantial offensive weaponary from either country. Russia is easy to be pressured. And China is not desperate for money and likes to keep "balance" in the Middle East.
Iran needs a class of navy destroyers with a modern design it can later reverse engineer on its own (Chinese or Russian) , another long range air defense system (s-400 or wait for s-500) as well as possible short range air defense system, fighter jets, AWACS, refueling aircraft, attack helicopters.
Things like tanks, APCs/IFVs are also needed but not a priority as the threat of major land invasion is relatively low.