Moscow in April lifted a ban on selling the missile systems to Iran, ahead of Tehran sealing a final historic deal with world powers in July to curb its nuclear programme.<\/p>\n
The decision sparked condemnation from Israel and concern from Washington, as it came before the lifting of the sanctions by the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n
Russia argues that the missile system is exclusively defensive and does not even fall under the sanctions.<\/p>\n
Moscow blocked deliveries of the surface-to-air missiles to Tehran in 2010 after the UN Security Council imposed the curbs on Iran over its nuclear programme barring hi-tech weapons sales. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Of course, we can fully expect that Iran will use the system to protect it’s nuclear facilities from an air attack when (not “if”) they bail on their agreement to abandon development of nuclear weapons. So are the missiles actually “defensive” if they are guarding against an interruption of their intent to wage nuclear war?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Associated Press reports that Russia has signed a contract to deliver a number of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. The S-300 is also known by it’s NATO nomenclature SA-10 Grumble and it’s the Russian equivalent to the Patriot missile system. Independent tests of the missile shows that it has a 90% accuracy rate with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/S300.jpg?fit=2048%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-gjn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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