Russia Offers to Sell Anti-aircraft Missile Program to Iran
 

https://s.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/DM...2889e5364bd52aRussia is offering to sell Iran a missile defense system, five years after the Kremlin canceled the sale of an earlier version under pressure from the U.S. and Israel. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday the chief executive of the Russian defense corporation Rostec said Tehran is considering its offer to sell an Antey-2500 anti-ballistic air defense system. A 2007 contract to supply a less advanced system to Iran was canceled in 2010, after the U.S. and Israel lobbied against it, saying it could be used to shield Iran's nuclear facilities from possible future airstrikes. But Russia also has tried to sell the missile system to war-torn Syria and other Middle Eastern countries. Russia?s state-controlled news agency TASS reported the chief executive told reporters: ?They are thinking about it. The decision hasn?t been taken yet."




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