BEYOND FALSE FLAGS, READINESS FOR WAR CONTINUES
RUSSIA’S
VLADIMIR PUTIN ORDERS MISSILE DEFENSE SHIPMENT TO IRAN
By Cheryl K. Chumley
By Cheryl K. Chumley
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36198.htm
September 11, 2013 "Information Clearing House - "Washington Times" - The Washington Times --- Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his government on Wednesday to send five high-tech surface-to-air missile defense systems to Iran, a move intended in part to put a stop to Tehran’s $4 billion lawsuit over a contract dispute.
The shipment includes five S300VM Antey-2500 missile systems, United Press International reported.
Iran’s ambassador to Russia, Seyed Mahmoud Reza Sajadi, welcomed the announcement and said his country now will drop its lawsuit, which stems from a 2007 agreement. Then, Russia promised to give the country five missile defense systems that were modified versions of the S300 types. After Russia reneged, Iran sued.
On Wednesday, Mr. Putin also said Russia will honor its previously forged deal to help construct a second nuclear power facility in Bushehr, UPI reported.
The announcement comes on the heels of Russia’s recent transfer of several S-300 missile defense systems to Syria.
© Copyright 2013 The Washington Times, LLC.
September 11, 2013 "Information Clearing House - "Washington Times" - The Washington Times --- Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his government on Wednesday to send five high-tech surface-to-air missile defense systems to Iran, a move intended in part to put a stop to Tehran’s $4 billion lawsuit over a contract dispute.
The shipment includes five S300VM Antey-2500 missile systems, United Press International reported.
Iran’s ambassador to Russia, Seyed Mahmoud Reza Sajadi, welcomed the announcement and said his country now will drop its lawsuit, which stems from a 2007 agreement. Then, Russia promised to give the country five missile defense systems that were modified versions of the S300 types. After Russia reneged, Iran sued.
On Wednesday, Mr. Putin also said Russia will honor its previously forged deal to help construct a second nuclear power facility in Bushehr, UPI reported.
The announcement comes on the heels of Russia’s recent transfer of several S-300 missile defense systems to Syria.
© Copyright 2013 The Washington Times, LLC.
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VLADIMIR PUTIN TO OFFER IRAN'S HASSAN ROWHANI MISSILE
SYSTEMS, NUCLEAR REACTOR
Russian president Vladimir Putin
will reportedly offer to supply missile systems to Iran and build a second
nuclear power reactor in the country, a move likely to gladden Tehran and
trouble the United States.
Iran's new president Hassan Rowhani
is set to meet Mr Putin on the sidelines of a summit of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation held in Kyrgyzstan on Friday, in the newly elected
centrist cleric's first meeting with a major world leader.
The Kommersant business daily
reported on Wednesday that Mr Putin will offer to supply Iran with S-300 air
defence missile systems as well as build a second reactor at the Bushehr
nuclear plant.
The S-300 offer would be a
particularly contentious development given it would essentially revive a
contract for similar missile systems that Russia cancelled in 2010 after heavy
Israeli and US pressure.
Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov
told Kommersant that Mr Putin and Mr Rowhani were expected to discuss
"working together in the nuclear energy sphere" and "questions
of military technical cooperation" at the summit.
Mr Putin's meeting with the leader
of Moscow's long-standing regional ally comes shortly after he hosted Western
powers for a G20 summit focused on Syria in Saint Petersburg this month.
In 2007, Russia signed a contract to
deliver five of the advanced S-300 ground-to-air weapons systems - which can
take out aircraft or guided missiles - to Iran at a cost of $859 million.
However, in 2010, then-president
Dmitry Medvedev cancelled the contract after coming under strong US and Israeli
pressure not to go ahead with the sale of the weapons system, drawing vehement
protests from Tehran.
Russia
to supply Iran if US strikes Syria
Russia could increase supplies of
arms to Iran if the United States decides on military intervention in Syria,
the head of the lower house's committee on international relations, Alexei
Pushkov, told parliament on Wednesday.
"If the 'party of war' prevails
in the United States... then I consider it absolutely justified to suggest
considering more serious measures by Russia, including broadening of supplies
of defensive weapons to Iran," Mr Pushkov was quoted as saying by
Interfax.
Iran is Syrian president Bashar
al-Assad's main regional ally and has warned Western powers against
intervention in the conflict.
Moscow has cooperated with Iran on
nuclear power generation despite international opposition to a program that
Western powers and Israel believe is being used as a smokescreen for building a
nuclear bomb.
Iran, however, insists that its
nuclear ambitions are peaceful.
Russia had urged the West to soften
sanctions against Iran after the June election of Mr Rowhani, a centrist
cleric, expressing hopes for a major breakthrough in the nuclear standoff.
Mr Rowhani has pledged greater
transparency in talks.
AFP
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