Will Putin Sell Missile Defences To Iran? Russian President Issues Threat To Route Technology....
Will Putin sell missile defences to Iran? Russian President issues threat to route technology elsewhere if the West attacks Syria
By TOM LEONARD
PUBLISHED: 00:58 EST, 4 September 2013 |
Vladimir Putin yesterday issued a thinly-veiled threat to arm Iran with missile defences if the West attacks Syria.
The Russian leader said Moscow had provided elements of the S-300 military technology to Syria but had frozen further shipments, suggesting they could be routed elsewhere.
That was widely seen as a threat to revive a contract for delivery of the S-300s to Iran, which Russia cancelled several years ago under strong US and Israeli pressure.
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The Russian leader called the S-300 air defence missile system ‘a very efficient weapon’ and said Russia had a contract for its delivery to Syria.
‘We have supplied some of the components, but the delivery hasn’t been completed,’ he said. ‘We have suspended it for now.
‘But if we see that steps are taken that violate the existing international norms, we shall think how we should act in the future, in particular regarding supplies of such sensitive weapons to certain regions of the world.’
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