Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz, a long-standing opponent of the nuclear framework deal reached with Iran earlier this month, says that the technologically advanced S-300 air-defense system that Russia has reportedly cleared for sale with Tehran is inextricably linked to the Lausanne agreement.
“This is the direct result of the legitimacy granted to Iran from the nuclear deal that is being forged,” he says in a written statement, “and it is proof that the Iranian economic momentum, to come in the wake of sanctions removal, will be exploited for arms build-up and not the welfare of the Iranian people.”
He continues, “Rather than demand of Iran that it cease its terror activity, which it spreads across the Middle East and the world, it is being allowed to arm itself with advanced weaponry that will only heighten its aggression.”
Israel has long urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin to refrain from selling the air-defense system to Syria and Iran, as it diminishes the regional aerial superiority that Israel has maintained since the start of the First Lebanon War in the summer of 1982.
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