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Friday, December 26, 2008

Moscow denies selling air defence systems to Iran

Moscow has not supplied any hi-tech weapons to Iran according to Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergey Ryabkov.

”All our military co-operation with Iran is totally within international law, including the UN Security Council armaments resolutions and Russian legislation. We are acting very responsibly when it comes to Iran,” he said.

A week ago there were reports that Russia had already started to supply S-300 systems to Iran, raising concerns in the US and Israel.

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