UN fake sanctions: Russia to give Iran S-300 Missiles
UN sanctions won’t bar sale of Russian S-300s to Iran. Congress to wait for Security Council before passing own sanctions.
Test launch of the Russian S-300 air defense system US officials conceded on Thursday that the new Iran sanctions resolution being discussed at the UN Security Council will not ban Russia from selling its advanced S-300 air defense system to Tehran.
Russia is already under contract to sell the state-of-the-art anti-aircraft systems to Iran, and Moscow insisted yesterday the resolution would not bar the sale, countering numerous reports to the contrary earlier in the day. American officials later admitted the Russians were right. Moscow has delayed the transfer of the coveted weaponry to Iran several times under pressure from the US and Israel, as its delivery would complicate any Western pre-emptive strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Source: ICEJ.org
My comment:
What if Iran tests its first nuclear bomb?
First than we will come to know, if United Nations sanctions are effective or not. And if these sanctions are not effective, what is the United Nations going to do?
Than one option will be to attack the Iranian Nuclear facilities, to stop Iran from developing more nuclear bombs.
Russia has just made such military actions almost impossible. Because giving Iran such anti-Air craft missiles, will enable Iran to shoot down F-16 aircrafts. Israel will have to take enormous risks for their pilots. The risk will be so high, that the Jewish state might be forced to use their submarines. They are most likely loaded with small nuclear warheads.
Russia just made war more likely. And not war with conventional weapons, but a nuclear war in the Middle East. A war that most likely will trigger World War III:
So there it is, game over. The weakest foreign policy President in our history has sealed our fate in the Middle East. Israel is now helpless, Jersey, you got your way...
ReplyDeleteObama has failed the entire world with his unjustified trust in leaders that want nothing to do with peace because war is far more profitable. If I were living in Israel I would move, quickly.
Update to original story....
ReplyDeleteIranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says Russia must fulfill its contractual commitment and deliver the S-300 missile system to Iran as the system is not subject to UN Security Council sanctions.
Asked about the non-delivery of the Russian missiles by a lawmaker in the Iranian Majlis (Parliament) on Sunday, Salehi said that the issue was being pursued through diplomatic channels.
“The Foreign Ministry has taken political and legal steps in parallel,” IRNA quoted him as saying.
Referring to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's decree prohibiting the delivery of the missile system to Iran, Salehi said, “Summoning the Russian envoy to the Foreign Ministry…and urging Iran's diplomats to discuss the issue with Russian counterparts were examples of those steps.”
“This issue will be followed until achieving a result and serving the country's interests. Foreign Ministry has also taken steps to use the capacity of Paris International Court [of Arbitration],” he said.
Salehi said that the Russians have tried to change Iran's mind about filing a lawsuit but Iran's Foreign Ministry will seriously pursue the matter with the help of other relevant bodies to reach a final result.
“The Russians thought that through the non-delivery of these missiles to Iran after President Barack Obama was elected…they could solve problems related to the [US] missile shield and also expand trade and nuclear ties [with Washington],” he said.
Under a USD 800-million contract signed in 2007, Russia was required to provide Iran with at least five S-300 air defense systems.
However, the delivery was repeatedly delayed until the UN Security Council adopted US-engineered sanctions Resolution 1929 against Iran in June last year.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issued a decree in September to prohibit the delivery of the defensive system to Iran.
In August, Seyyed Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi, Iran's ambassador to Russia, said Tehran had filed a lawsuit against Russia at the International Court of Justice over Moscow's refusal to deliver the air defense systems.
This is while Commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili told Fars News Agency on September 20 that Iran was building a more sophisticated version of Russia's S-300 missile defense system at home.
"The flaws and defects of the (Russian) S-300 system have been corrected in the indigenous version of the system and its conceptual designing has been finished,” he added.
Iran has been trying to obtain the sophisticated defense system to improve its deterrence power in reaction to Israeli war rhetoric.
Experts believe the S-300 missile defense system can shield Iranian nuclear sites from any Israeli airstrike.
SS/HGH
Dated 9/11/2013