Iran Official: We Have Obtained The S-300 Missile System

Haaretz ^

[edpc]

A semiofficial Iranian news agency says Iran has obtained four S-300 surface-to-air missiles despite Russia's refusal to deliver them.

The Fars news agency said Wednesday that Iran has obtained two missiles from Belarus and two others from another unspecified source.

Russia signed a contract in 2007 to sell the missiles to Iran but said in June that new UN Security Council sanctions against Tehran prevent delivery. The sale would have substantially boosted the country's defense capacities, raising Israeli fears it would tip the military balance in the Middle East.

[edpc]

Unclear what the article means by "four missiles." I am assuming they mean four actual platforms, as shown in the photo. Interesting development, if true, since Israel has pegged the acquisition/implementation of the missile system as one of their red lines.

[edpc]

Ping for your ME list.

[edpc]

Mod, please add source link from Haaretz:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/iran-official-we-have-obtained-the-s-300-missile-system-1.305954

[rhombus]

tick...tick...tick...

[edpc]

Could be disinformation by the Iranians to provoke Israel. However, I think you’re right, considering the quickly developing events in the region over the past few days.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

And Obama wants to have tea and talk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_ships_of_the_Iranian_Navy

WHILE he gives the TERRORISTS AKA- Hamas

600 BILLION OF OUR DOLLARS!

[ryan71]

“All your radar are belong to us” - Mr. HARM

http://www.defense-update.com/products/h/harm.htm

[Hardraade]

Tea? I suspect that if Iran actually managed to procure these systems, they had outside help. Maybe the O itself.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/05/AR2010070502578.html

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Im sure the ones that Obama kisses arse with; Russia and China
supplied Iran’s Naval capabilities.

[Spirochete]

... Iranian news agency says Iran has obtained four S-300 surface-to-air missiles ...

A whopping *four* SAMs. I'm shakin'.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Hey they have a Naval Port where the DNC will probably have their next convention.

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[SunkenCiv]

The Fars news agency said Wednesday that Iran has obtained two missiles from Belarus and two others from another unspecified source.

Gotta be the Jews' fault. /sarc

[AdmSmith]

I'm not so sure about this, but if we assume that it is true, then the missiles might have been delivered from Azerbaijan:

Baku has been moving away from the United States. Recently, Baku cancelled joint maneuvers with the U.S. military. At the same time Azerbaijan has been increasing its cooperation with Iran and Russia on energy and other matters. Beyond this, rhetoric from high level Baku officials has become progressively more anti-American. Though US policy makers have sought to discount the significance of these signals, there is little doubt that US – Azerbaijani relations are undergoing a change for the worse. The questions are why and what can be done.
http://www.news.az/articles/19862

ROAR: “Building air defense shield in Azerbaijan is in Russia’s interests”
Russia’s arms exporter denies selling S-300 air defense systems to Azerbaijan, as the contract on supplying such weapons to Iran remains in limbo.

Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has denied a Vedomosti daily report that the company has sold S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Azerbaijan. The business paper speculated the company would supply S-300 systems to arm two battalions according to a deal allegedly signed in 2009.

http://rt.com/Politics/2010-07-30/roar-azerbaijan-air-defense.html

Jane's Defense Systems News reported as far back as in January 2008 that Tehran was in the final stages of negotiations with Belarus for the acquisition of two surplus trailer-mounted towed S-300PT systems.

These outdated systems were deployed near Minsk and Belarus allegedly asked $140 mln for the two systems (including parts, maintenance and training).

The actual sale has never been confirmed. Belarus has no right to resell air defense systems supplied by the Soviet Union and later the Russian Federation.

Russia signed a contract on supplying Iran with at least five S-300 systems in December 2005, but the contract’s implementation has so far been delayed.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/40927/20100804/belarus-denies-sales-of-s300-air-defense-systems-to-iran.htm

[M. Espinola]

Once again the source of the Tehran dictatorship's weaponry comes ...."from Belarus and two others from another unspecified source." as if we did not know the "another unspecified source".... Putin's Kremlin. Once again making it possible for the despotic Iranian régime to trigger World War III, beginning in the oil shipping lanes of the Persian Gulf, coupled with Assad's Syria, yet another old Soviet and current client for advanced 'made in Russia' weapons, which in part are transferred to the jihadist butchers of Hezballah.

Soon, once Tehran & Damascus issues orders to Hezballah, to deliberately incite war against Israel on her northern front, along with Iran's other Islamic terrorist proxies,infesting Gaza on Israel's southern border.

The question is, will the Bear remain in Russia, (her vast grain belt burning up) or directly participate against Israel and the West once Moscow's Mid-East Arab/Islamic client states have plunged the entire region into war?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks AdmSmith!