Newest S300 version will be delivered to Iran

[Draco.IMF]

A lot of western online news say russia will provide S300 to Iran very soon, so what the f... is the truth

 

[Rukarl]

^^ Dont mind that hezzi, he is living in his own Islamic Republic superpower dream where they have thousands of Bavar missiles on stand by

These missiles will get delivered, date is unknown to public.

 

[yavar]

A lot of western online news say russia will provide S300 to Iran very soon, so what the f... is the truth

is this one of them you better look at what Russian defence ministary says


Russia says it is not ‘right time’ to deliver missiles to Iran

Kathrin Hille in Moscow


Russia says it will not deliver high-end air defence missiles to Iran in the near future, despite last month lifting an embargo on delivering such weapons.

“The right time to make such deliveries has not yet come,” Yevgeny Lukyanov, deputy head of Russia’s security council, said on Tuesday.

Other Russian officials added that the long delay in executing the sale of the S-300 missile system to Tehran, for which a contract was signed in 2007, had created a situation so complex that it was impossible to predict when the deal could go ahead.

The remarks highlight Moscow’s careful attempts to balance its broadening relationship with Iran against its ties with Israel, as well as its relations with other countries involved in the Middle East.

The US and other western countries criticised last month’s move by Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, to unblock the missile deal. Some warned that Moscow’s softening stance could undermine Tehran’s commitment to reaching an agreement in multilateral talks on its nuclear programme.

However, Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, said progress in those nuclear talks proved that the two issues were unrelated and that Moscow had to address the damage its weapons embargo was doing to the bilateral relationship.

Iran has launched legal action against Moscow and defence contractors over the Russian government’s move to freeze the missile deal.

Mr Ryabkov said: “We are stuck with Iran in terms of their lawsuit against Russia and Russian entities at the arbitration court in Paris. We do not want this to be a constant irritant in our bilateral relations.”

The level of support Russia has been prepared to offer Iran has varied, depending on the state of Moscow’s relations with the US.

But since Mr Putin returned to the presidency in May 2012, his administration has been seeking to deepen ties with Iran, amid growing concerns in Moscow that under President Hassan Rouhani, Tehran has switched its priority to building better relations with the west, leading to fears that Russia’s influence in the region would wane.

If the long-running talks on Iran’s nuclear programme succeed in cementing a comprehensive deal, as scheduled, at the end of June, UN sanctions on Iran are expected to be lifted first, followed later by EU and US sanctions. Russian companies expect that this will give them a head start in the Iranian market before western competitors move in.

Iran’s defence minister Hossein Dehghan said on a visit to Moscow last month that he expected the S-300 contract to be reviewed within a month and deliveries to happen before the end of this year.

But Russian officials on Tuesday refused to confirm any such timeframe. Talking about a schedule would be “not just premature but very wrong,” Mr Ryabkov said.

Oleg Bochkaryov, deputy head of Russia’s military-industrial commission, the government organ overseeing the defence industry, told a media conference in Kazan that Moscow would not supply S-300 missiles to Iran from its stocks but build new ones instead.

“That means a delay to be measured not in months but possibly in years,” said a person close to the defence ministry.

Russia says it is not ‘right time’ to deliver missiles to Iran - FT.com

 

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Kerry has convinced Putin that in exchange for shutting up about Crimea, S-300's to Iran be blocked:

Russia’s S-300 for Iran stuck in limbo | Asia Times