Iran announces: Russia will sell us advanced surface-air missile system
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Russia will supply Iran with the advanced S-300 surface-air missiles in accordance with an agreement sealed Tuesday night, The Iranian Fars agency quoted Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar as saying Wednesday.
Najjar dismissed speculation regarding a connection between the deal and a recent US intelligence report which claimed that Iran had frozen its nuclear weapons plan in 2003.
The S-300 is the Russian equivalent of the US MIM-104 Patriot system or the US Navy RIM-66 Standard Missile 2 (SM-2), and can engage various types of missiles and warplanes at vaying altitudes.
According to the Fars agency, the system will "grant Iran air superiority over enemy missiles and aircrafts."
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