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Medvedev to decide on arms shipment to Iran
Published: 11 June, 2010, 19:32
Edited: 14 June, 2010, 11:23
TAGS: Arms, Military, Russia, Politics, Iran
Several countries - including Russia - are reviewing their co-operation with Iran in light of the looming UN sanctions.
Russia signed a deal in 2007 to supply Iran with the advanced, long-range air defence system, the S-300, but so far nothing's been delivered.
The agreement's believed to be worth around $1 billion.
Officials had hinted that the S-300 is not subject to the new sanctions because it's a purely defensive weapon.
Now, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says any future course of action is President Medvedev’s call.
“We should take into account that the resolution includes a whole set of measures, which cover different aspects of relations with Iran and other countries and they are all inter-connected. According to our practice, a UN Security Council's resolution must first be realised through a decree of the Russian president before it is implemented, as will be done in this case. The resolution will define which particular arms are to be banned from being supplied to Iran according to the resolution,” Lavrov said.
Russia also says the new restrictions will not affect construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant – which is expected to power up in August.
But analysts such as Ruslan Pukhov from the Moscow-based Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies believe Russia's paying the price for its reinvigorated friendship with the US
“We are supposed to return the advance payment and we will be sanctioned by Iran," Pukhov told RT. "Our direct financial losses will be $1 billion right now; and in long term we face another $2-billion-worth of unsigned contracts. So the friendship with the U.S. and President Obama will cost us a lot”.
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@Fred I was very pleased by your comment addressed to me but at the same time was also surprised coming from an American. I used to blog a lot on McClatchey but found that most opinions were similar to each other so I came to the conclusion that most Americans are brainwashed and do not realize it. I find it harder to submit an honest opinion in the US than anywhere else. Anyway, Mr. Fred, thank you for your smart comment however, I am still disappointed in Russia and China vote. Can you imagine this: Russia and China are part of the group BRIC and they voted against their allies. Unbelievable. p.s. Forget my English, it is not my mother tongue.
@JG I think you are a little mistaken regarding the Israeli attack on Syria. Operation Orchard had the Israelis going up against the formidible SA-3 SAM system, not the S-300. There were claims at the time that Pantsir was operational but months after the attack Russian officials in the factory that make the Pantsir said Syrian Pantsirs had not yet been delivered. The fact that the Israelis hacked into the air defence network and manipulated the radars so they were always looking in the wrong direction to see Israeli assets suggests Syrian airspace might have been vulnerable even if S-300s were operational, but now that they have played that hand I rather doubt they will fall for it again and their network will be altered and upgraded to prevent a recurrance... and I would also suspect that Iranian air defences offer a much wider range of SAMs which should make it much harder to penetrate. Personally I think the best solution for Iran is simply to withdraw from the agreements it has signed because the benefit it was supposed to get from signing the non proliferation treaty was free access to civilian nuclear power generation technologies. It has not gotten free access and has suffered sanction after sanction even though it is following the correct procedures. Israel signed nothing and has nuclear weapons and no sanctions so clearly that is the path Iran should follow. Will I have to retire from my job now and be branded anti semetic?
The objective of US on Iran is undoubtedly like ever has been over all others countries is his natural resources, trade liberalization,strategic position,..etc (Oil and strategic position in this case). Let see the history of US and UK ,and ever have won (invade) by the brutal force and not by rational or human rights arguments using; media propaganda,undercover agents,preparing in his universities future local leaders (puppets), paying mercenaries.making sabotages.creating religious and subversive propaganda (brain wash) ,..etc. I'm from Mexico and we know them well , They are the perfect predators. The attack and invasion over Iran is a fact it is only a matter of time, By the way, the next objectives in their black list after Noth Corea are Russia and China. The form in which they are going to proceed is by destalilization because they are the sufficient cowards to avoid a direct confrontation. This is not a surprise for Russia and China, the question in this chess game is ¿ How They are going to win without pieces (allies) to move?.