Russia 'To Renew Offer' To Supply Iran With Missile Systems And Build Nuclear Reactor
Source: AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
A Russian S-300 missile system takes part in a rehearsal for the 2012 Victory Day parade in Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will offer to supply Iran S-300 air defence missile systems as well as build a second reactor at the Bushehr nuclear plant, the Kommersant business daily reported Wednesday.
Putin will renew an old offer to supply Iran with five of the sophisticated ground-to-air missile systems at a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rowhani on Friday, Kommersant said, quoting a souce close to the Kremlin.
Putin is set to meet Rowhani at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation held in Kyrgyzstan on Friday.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.in/Russia-To-Renew-Offer-To-Supply-Iran-With-Missile-Systems-And-Build-Nuclear-Reactor/articleshow/22486973.cms
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)bananas
(27,509 posts)"Instead of enhancing Iran's energy security, the nuclear program has diminished the country's ability to diversify and achieve real energy independence."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/03/us-iran-nuclear-report-idUSBRE93200620130403
The report is on the Carnegie website at http://carnegieendowment.org/2013/04/02/iran-s-nuclear-odyssey-costs-and-risks/fvui
and on the Federation of American Scientists website at http://blogs.fas.org/blog/2013/04/new-report-analyzing-irans-nuclear-program-costs-and-risks/
truth2power
(8,219 posts)Doesn't Israel have missiles? Aren't they always talking about defending themselves?
Sauce for the goose...
iandhr
(6,852 posts)David__77
(23,558 posts)I imagine that Russia needs to play more cards to pressure the West to accept a non-Chapter 7 solution to the Syria issue.
iandhr
(6,852 posts)... if there is a substantial consequence for non-comliance. If there is no trigger what incentive does Syria have to comply?
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Alexei Pushkov, a Kremlin-connected senior Russian lawmaker, said that Russia could expand arms sales to Iran and revise terms of U.S. military transit to Afghanistan if Washington launches a strike on Syria.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/france-seeks-action-syria-russia-move-20208700
EC
(12,287 posts)I wonder if their defense system works?
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