They should just call it a “recall”.
I know that Iran has been quite a customer of the Ruskies. Is it possible that Moscow may be rethinking their investment in Iran? I doubt they’ll be leaving soon, but military actions are bad for business. Mining the ports, cutting off gasoline supplies, all of these create difficulties in commerce.
Perhaps there is some discomfort with the aggressive nuclear leanings of the Mullahs. Just a thought.
The Russians figure that if it’s deployed to someplace like Iran or N Korea, and Western technology just zips right past it, the embarrassment will kill any future Russian arms sales.
I thought I heard a Israeli say that once the damn thing was operational, they would not be able to use their plan for attack, or something to that effect.
I wonder what Obama traded for this.