Posted on 02/25/2016 1:36:45 PM PST by drewh
Iran’s Defense Minister Gen. Hossein Dehghan arrived in Moscow this week at the head of a large military delegation and laid before President Vladimir Putin and his Defense Minister Gen. Sergei Shoigu a $14 billion check. Now, make our Revolutionary Guards Corps and regular forces into an up-to-the-minute war machine, he said.
The plan to make over and upgrade Iran’s military was first approved by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It is to be paid for with funds released by newly lifted sanctions against the Islamic Republic. The ayatollah aspires to rebuild the two branches – the IRGC with 150,000 troops and the regular army of 420,000 – as the most powerful armed force in the Middle East.
The fee on offer to Moscow covers the best-quality arms purchases and the foundation of a wide-ranging military industry for turning out Iran’s requirements of warplanes, tanks and other high-grade systems.
The entire project as presented to Russian leaders is estimated to unfold over 10 years, during which relations between Tehran and Moscow should grow progressively stronger. However, according to informed Western military sources, the Iranian scheme may be unrealistic. The Russian army and its defense ministry are not capable of meeting all of Iran’s military requirements for the next decade, even if its entire production output is set aside for this purpose. Russia is deeply immersed in two major wars in Ukraine and Syria. It is hard pressed to keep up with its own military needs, as well as with commitments undertaken under existing international arms contracts with China and India.
Iran’s shopping list is vast and formidable, as revealed here by intelligence sources. It is topped by highly advanced ballistic missile technology, together with the special metals the Russians have developed for upgrading their own missiles and their engines.
Other items are:
Advanced SU-30 and SU-35 fighter-bombers Spy planes, especially the latest model of the Tu-214R intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft that was posted last week in Syria Submarines and different types of warships including missile ships A large number of the top-of-the-line T-90 tank as standard equipment for both branches of the Iranian military. The Russians are to build factories for its production in Iran The latest armored personnel carriers MRLS rocket launchers of diverse calibers Heavy, self-propelled artillery
Tehran appears to have taken Russian consent to this giant transaction as a given and regime officials are already enthusing over the “Russian weapons revolution†about to overtake its military. President Putin was quoted as agreeing in principle to the transaction, although he proposed first setting up a Russian-Iranian military team for examining the items on order and its financial aspects. Its conclusions would then be submitted to the decision making authorities of both governments before implementation goes ahead.
Commenting on these negotiations, a US official stressed Friday, Feb. 19, that the UN embargo on arms sales to Iran, embodied in the nuclear deal Iran signed with the six world powers last year, remains in force for five yea
Good job, Obama!!!
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Thanks Barry!
Somewhere Valerie Jarrett is smiling. Probably under Jeh Johnson’s desk.
Great, so the money we paid Iran is going to Russia to help train the army that will ultimately be trying to destroy US!
Thanks for that nuke deal Obama and those who voted for the Corker Bill.
An alliance of Iran and apparently Russia is prophesied in Ezekiel 38, for the Latter Days and the Latter Years. They suffer a devastating defeat at the hands of Almighty God when they go after Israel. Something happens to cause Gog of Magog to go after Israel. It will be a titanic mistake.
Still leaves them $136 BILLION from the 0bama/Kerry slush fund to work on their nukes.
here come the end times!
While the money is going from us to Iran to Russia, the ones really laughing here are the Russians. Sure, Iran will pay $14 billion for a bunch of shiny weapons. But shiny weapons and guys in uniform do not an army make. An army needs doctrine, training, tradition among other things. But the most important things they need are logistics and competent staff work to make a cohesive fighting force.
Some of things money just won’t buy.
Mr Flexible strikes again!
So they want to pay the Russians $1.4 Billion/year for 10 years to equip and train 570,000 troop? Granted it is a 3rd world shithole, but how much bang can they actually get for that number?
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Nahhh russia builds / delivers fixed silos and mobile launchers, maintained and operated by russian “contractors” and then hand the launch codes to the Ayatollah !
Easy day for the pay.... no need for a navy or real army as they still have those bad ass boston whalers with a crew of old HK G91 toting fishermen that can take out our best in the gulf while obama has em on leash.
( / sarcasm)
All they need is some C4 or such and a few jihadists willing to die for alluh ... and something that can get them up to about 50 mph. They could take out a few DDG’s and such.
Obama will say it’s “workplace violence” and the lemmings will nod in approval of all he says and does.
Obama is the dumbest President in history, or should I say "Precedent"? Because that's how an unqualified, ignorant fool got elected.
If he were white, the nation would call him a fool. The rest of the world already does.
Reminds me of the scene in LotR when Sauron’s orcs arrive at Saruman’s tower reporting for duty.
O will go down as the Neville Chamberlain of modern times..
I expect he'll be looking UP at Neville Chamberlain from where he lands in history.
With Iran on Russia’s souther flank, Putin will take the money , laugh, and give them obsolete shi’ite..
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