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Iran to receive Russian missiles by end of 2015: minister

Iranian troops are being trained in Russia to operate the surface-to-air missile systems

Afp November 11, 2015

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TEHRAN: Iran will receive the bulk of the S-300 air defence missile systems it ordered from Russia by the end of the year, Tehran's defence minister has said.

"We signed a contract with Russia. It is being done. We will acquire a large portion of the systems by the end of this year," Hossein Dehghan told state television late Tuesday.

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He said Iranian troops were being trained in Russia to operate the surface-to-air missile systems.

This week, the state-run Russian Technologies corporation (Rostec) announced the signing of a delivery contract in Tehran for S-300 missiles.

Moscow in April lifted a ban dating from 2010 on selling the missile systems to Iran, ahead of Tehran sealing a final historic deal with world powers in July to curb its nuclear programme.

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The decision sparked condemnation from Israel and concern from Washington, as it came before the lifting of the sanctions by the UN Security Council.

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Russia will provide Iran with a "modernised and updated" version of the missile systems, following up on an initial contract signed in 2007, Rostec Director General Sergey Chemezov said in a statement.

COMMENTS (1)

Vilu | 8 years ago | Reply Don't know. The DPRK has yet to launch a nulcear missile. In fact, they have yet to successfully detonate a nulcear warhead. The two to date have both been wet firecrackers that failed to reach critical mass. The two intercontinental range missiles that they have launched to date have also been dismal failures and failed to reach anything approaching their planned objectives.Would you rather we invade the DPRK, which would result in the decimation of the RoK as the world's 3rd largest standing army streamed across the 38th parallel? Mr. Obama isn't blaming Mr. Bush for the DPRK's testing of nulcear weapons and is handling the issue in much the same way as Mr Bush did which is one of the few things that Dubya did correctly.

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