Moscow signs deal to sell S-300 air defense systems to Iran

Russia signed a contract with Iran to deliver air defense systems S-300 (SA-10A Grumble). Russia has not made any deliveries of such systems to Iran before, Russian defense officials said.

“In spite of the fact that the contract was signed two years ago there were no shipments of S-300 systems made to Iran. However, the contract is being executed step by step,” an anonymous defense official told RIA Novosti.

The deal is evaluated at hundreds of millions of dollars.

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