Saudi Arabia is seeking to extract a Russian pledge not to go through with a contracted shipment of advanced surface-to-air missiles to Iran, as part of an agreement for a larger purchase of Russian weapons, according to diplomats with knowledge of the talks.The proposed Saudi arms purchase would total at least $2bn (€1.4bn, £1.3bn) and possibly as much as $7bn, and would include the most advanced air defence system produced in Russia, the S-400, analogous to the US Patriot missile defence system.
Russia has been under pressure from the US and several Middle Eastern states, including Saudi Arabia and Israel, not to go through with the sale of an earlier version of the same system, the S-300, to Tehran, first publicised by Iran in 2007.
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