Maybe the Israeli UAV bribery package paid off...
Posted on 02/17/2010 10:49:53 PM PST by myknowledge
Russia raised Western hopes that it will support tougher international sanctions against Iran’s nuclear programme by announcing a delay in delivery of S-300 advanced air defence missiles.
The postponement for unspecified “technical problems” was made public a day after Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister, urged Russia to support “crippling” sanctions against Tehran during a visit to Moscow.
The United States and Israel have been pressing Russia not to deliver the S-300 missiles, which would make a successful military strike much more difficult if diplomacy failed to resolve the stand-off over Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Iran insists that its atomic programme is peaceful but an announcement last week that it had begun to upgrade uranium from 3.5 per cent to 20 per cent enrichment has intensified suspicions that President Ahmadinejad is intent on building a nuclear bomb.
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Maybe the Israeli UAV bribery package paid off...
Too bad for Iranians that S-300 is little bit outdated and still not battle tested
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