Iran receives Russian air defence missiles
From Russia with Love:
DUBAI: Iran has received sophisticated Russian air defence missiles to protect its key nuclear facilities.
Officials disclosed the import of Tor-M1 missile during Iran's three-day military exercises.
These weapons are likely to deployed to safeguard Iranian nuclear facilities at Isfahan, Bushehr, Tehran and eastern Iran, Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency reported.
"We have had constructive defence transactions with Russia and we purchased Tor-M1 missiles that were recently delivered to us," Iran's Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar was quoted as saying. Mr. Najjar, however, did not disclose the quantity of the missiles that had been received.
In New York, spokesman for the U.S. mission to the United Nations, Richard Grenell, called the development ``troublesome, given that Iran is the leading state sponsor of terror in the world.''
Also from Dubai:
At a speech in Dubai on 23 January, United States Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns told a group of academics, diplomats and journalists that a second US aircraft carrier strike group headed toward the Persian Gulf "is Washington's way of warning Iran to back down in its attempts to dominate the region."
The USS John C Stennis, along with several accompanying ships, is expected to arrive by late February in the Gulf, where it will join the USS Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrier group. Its presence will mark the first time since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 that there have been two American carrier battle groups in the region.
A showdown in Persia? Don't count on it. More American buildings will have to fall before this congress will feel in danger again.
Labels: Iran, politics, Russia
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