Posted on 07/01/2025 9:01:46 AM PDT by Words Matter
Former Iranian deputy parliament speaker on Monday criticized Russia for refusing to provide Iran with the S-400 air defense system, despite Tehran supplying drones used in the war in Ukraine.
“Russia has given the S-400 air defense system to Turkey and Saudi Arabia, but does not give it to Iran, which has provided it with drone assistance in the war with Ukraine, because it might be used against Israel,” Ali Motahari wrote in a post on X.
“This is what the strategic cooperation with Iran that Mr. Putin talks about looks like,” he added.
I don’t think anyone can blame Putin for not assisting the Islamic Republic...
The Russians have need of air defense weapons much closer to home than to give them to the failed regime in Iran. Besides, they’d just get blown up there so why waste them. The Iranian dictatorship may well be disappointed with Russia but one of these days the Iranian people will succeed in getting themselves a realistic government
Ya Can’t Make This Stuff Up Department:
...Davood Sheikhian, Deputy for Operations of the Aerospace Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, stated that Iran had not approached Russia for such systems because it already possesses its own air defense system, which he claims is much more capable than the S-400...
The Israelis would have just turned them into scrap metal. Like they did in Syria. The Russians aren’t that stupid.
Russia is very protective of it’s missile defense system, which is touted as one of the best in the world, if not the best.
So, giving it to Iran might have brought the S-400s under unrelenting attacks by Israel and the U.S., with drones and stealth aircraft. The touted effectiveness and invincibility of the S-400s, would have been destroyed, and Russia would have eggs in their faces. Russia knew that the Iranians would not have been able to protect the S-400s from attacks,and then, the effectiveness and invincibility would have been proven as false. Better to remain clouded in secrecy than to be revealed as a fraud.
But, the Iranians need to learn to pick better friends. Russia has bigger problems to deal with than helping Iran.
Russia needs to protect its own failed regime.
How Putin ditched Iran during the 12-day war with Israel: ‘We gave them drones, but got no S-400s in return’.
Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t want to provoke Israel, which is home to over a million Russian speakers, by siding with IsraelMeera Suresh By Meera Suresh.
Updated: July 01, 2025 11:26 IST
...Russia has always maintained a good relationship with Israel, which Putin wants to preserve. Ian Garner, a geopolitical expert and an assistant professor of totalitarian studies at the Pilecki Institute in Warsaw, opines that even if the capacity did exist, Putin wouldn’t want to provoke Israel, home to over a million Russian speakers. “Moreover, as Russian military production capacity has improved, Russia’s reliance on Iranian drone technology has decreased. Even if he could, Putin would have little to gain by aiding Iran militarily,” Garner wrote in Unherd.
https://www.theweek.in/news/middle-east/2025/07/01/how-putin-ditched-iran-during-the-12-day-war-with-israel-we-gave-them-drones-but-got-no-s-400s-in-return.html
exactly what’s going on, yes.
Iran needs to raise the price of their drones, since Isreal proved the Russian made S400 missile systems aren’t worth spit.
“Russia has given the S-400 air defense system to Turkey and Saudi Arabia”
Saudi’s don’t have S-400s. Deal was discussed at some point, but never happened. Russia wanted to sell S-300s to them, not S-400.
Hoodwinker hoodwinks another hoodwinker.
which he claims is much more capable than the S-400...
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Well they are both have about the same effectiveness.
Putin is evil but not stupid. Face it Iran, your only friends are in far away east Asia.
“Putin is evil but not stupid. “
He was stupid when he invaded Ukraine with previously failed strategies.
OTOH, he has gotten rich robbing the Russian citizens.
Sucks to be Iran...
Very rich.
After Ukraine, what good does his wealth do him? The countries that would take him in are basket cases, like Venezuela. Russia was a preferrable place to live, with the bonus of occasional visits to Paris or Rome, than exile in a skithole.
Probably due to they’re all rusting burned out hulks in Ukraine.
“Former Iranian deputy parliament speaker on Monday criticized Russia for refusing to provide Iran with the S-400 air defense system, despite Tehran supplying drones used in the war in Ukraine.”
you can’t really blame the soviets, uh, i mean russia: any S-400’s sent to iran will just get blowed up sooner or later ...
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