Iran expects Russia to deliver the S-300 air-defense missile system by the end of the year, the head of the Iranian security council says.
Ali Shamkhani announces in Moscow that Tehran’s lawsuit will be withdrawn only after delivery of the S-300s, which he hopes will happen by the end of the year, Russian news agencies report. Iran is due to receive five batteries, the reports say.
His Russian counterpart, Nikolai Patrushev, says delivery will take time. “It will depend on our manufacturers,” he tells the Interfax news agency. “I believe they will need at least six months to complete this work.”
Patrushev is more cautious than Putin’s spokesman, who said Monday that the missile system could be shipped to Iran at any moment.
— AP, Times of Israel staff
A Russian air-defense missile system Antey 2500, or S-300 VM, is on display at the opening of the MAKS Air Show in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, August 27, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Ivan Sekretarev, File)
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