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Article: IRAN - Dec 21 - Tehran Says It's Getting Missiles.
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- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- December 31, 2009
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An Iranian official says Russia had started delivering an advanced air-defense system to Iran, despite earlier denials by Russia that a deal had been reached. The official, Esmail Kosari, the deputy head of Parliament's Commission for Foreign Affairs and National Security, was quoted by IRNA as saying, "After a few years of talks with Russia, now the S-300 system is being delivered". The S-300, called the SA-20 in the West, is a surface-to-air missile system that can track aircraft and fire at them from more than 100 miles away. In September, amid reports that a deal was near, a Russian FM spokesman, Andrei Nesterenko, denied that Russia would sell the missile system to ...