Iran Official: We Have Obtained The S-300 Missile System

[Purveyor]

A semiofficial Iranian news agency says Iran has obtained four S-300 surface-to-air missiles despite Russia's refusal to deliver them.

The Fars news agency said Wednesday that Iran has obtained two missiles from Belarus and two others from another unspecified source.

Russia signed a contract in 2007 to sell the missiles to Iran but said in June that new UN Security Council sanctions against Tehran prevent delivery. The sale would have substantially boosted the country's defense capacities, raising Israeli fears it would tip the military balance in the Middle East.

In June, a senior Iranian official said that that if Russia persisted in its refusal "to deliver the systems, we are well capable of producing missile defense systems that are very much similar to Russia's S-300 apparatus."

Since the recently approved UN sanctions resolution against Iran, Russia has released several contradicting reports regarding it missile deal with Iran.

The senior Iranian official added that if Russia eventually refused "to deliver the systems, we are well capable of producing missile defense systems that are very much similar to Russia's S-300 apparatus."

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http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/iran-official-we-have-obtained-the-s-300-missile-system-1.305954

[mmonk]

1. Any corroborative reports?

[mmonk]

2. I see also reports from the UK and Turkey.

I'm waiting on Belarus also. Iranian officials use a lot of bluster.

[spanone]

3. 'A semiofficial Iranian news agency'.... i'll semi believe it.

[Winterblues]

4. Notice this is completely DEFENSIVE

yet Israel is worried about it....

[mmonk]

5. If true.

I haven't found any Belarussian news sources that have confirmed it yet.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. God forbid that Iranians try to defend themselves. How unAmerican of them.

[Pavulon]

7. Same system syria had. They are still minus one reactor(nt)