Yes not one of Rouhani and Zarifs smarter decisions sadly.It really depends on what loopholes there are available,altho` russia might not be able to sell tanks directly to iran it could still provide iran with all the data necessary for iran to produce it in iran under an iranian name and claim it as an indigenous design,time will tell I guess.
It wasn't Russians, but long sighted Iranian negotiation team!
Actually it was both,the russians proved to be quite unreliable and untrustworthy and rouhani and co stupidly allowed the arms embargo to remain so I think theres more than enough blame to go around for everyone involved in this whole stupid fiasco
What's so bad about arm embargo . we now can get the products made some change and produce it and nobody can say anything , I believe its a lot better than just buy the finished products. About things we can produce ourselves also the embargo made us invest more and have our own weapons that nobody knows about their exact spec so that give us surprise factor.
The embargo is a twin edged sword it forces iran to invest money and effort to develop its own military industries which is a good thing but it also means that a lot of time and money and effort has to be spent basically reinventing the wheel or designing and putting into service systems and weapons that just arent as good as ones you could`ve [in theory at least] purchased or having to reverse engineer someone elses system which isnt quick or cheap to do,not to mention that for a country like iran it is very,very expensive to try and produce literally everything yourself.Thats why I think for iran the best solution is a mixture of home grown and license built weapons/systems
Well if the sanction is over everything and target anything its damaging but if it target specific fields then its more a motivation than hindrance
