[Mind-numbed Robot]

While the Kremlin remains a major supplier of nuclear technology for Iran's nuclear programme, President Vladimir Putin would face serious problems if he had to explain to the rest of the world how the Islamic Republic had acquired the most recent generation of S-300PSs. For this reason, Belarus and its increasingly isolated regime could provide an alternative supply route and one that would offer Moscow the cover of 'plausible deniability' once the missile transfer has been effected.

More evidence that Russia is not as it presents itself to the West.

[strategofr]

"More evidence that Russia is not as it presents itself to the West."

yes. Pretty flimsy cover, since Belarus is an obvious satellite.