Sanctions Won't Hit Russia's Missile Sales To Iran: Senior Politicians

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Source: Agence France-Presse

MOSCOW — Two key Russian parliament members said on Friday proposed UN sanctions on Iran would not affect Russia's controversial sale of S-300 missiles to Tehran, the Interfax news agency reported.

The possible sanctions would not hurt "current contracts", said Mikhail Margelov, the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee at the Federation Council, the upper house of parliament:

"As far as Russian economic interests are concerned, this draft does not deal a blow to current contracts existing between Russia and Iran," he told journalists.

"We need to remember that Russia is a responsible seller of any of its products on external markets and we are not interested in the militarisation of the Middle East," he said.

Moscow had already agreed the sale of the missiles with Tehran but the delivery has been delayed by Western pressure.

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