DEFENSE NEWS
by Agence France-Presse
May 26, 2015

Russia on Tuesday confirmed its decision to deliver S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran, but said it could not yet announce a date. “The decision on delivering S-300 to Iran has been taken but the realization of the project will take some time,” Yevgeny Lukyanov, deputy head of Russia’s security council, was quoted by Russian agencies as saying…President Vladimir Putin last month lifted a ban on supplying Iran with the sophisticated systems, following the landmark framework deal Tehran struck with the West over its nuclear program. He said several days later that Iran is “demonstrating very high flexibility and clearly wishes to reach a compromise on this nuclear program,” which is why Moscow lifted its own ban. READ MORE