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Tuesday 9 August 2016 - 11:11
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Russia delivers half of S-300 air defense systems to Iran under contract

Russia has already delivered half of S-300 air defense systems to Iran under the existing contract, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told reporters following russia-Iran-Azerbaijan summit in Baku on Monday.


BAKU (Sputnik) Head ofRussia's Rostec corporation, Sergei Chemezov, said inJuly that Russia was planning tocomplete the deliveries ofthe S-300 air defense systems toIran bythe end of2016.


The $800-million Moscow-Tehran contract todeliver Russian S-300 systems toIran was signed in2007. It was suspended afterthe adoption ofUN Security Council sanctions onIran inmid-2010.

In 2011, Iran sued Russia inthe Geneva Arbitration Court afterMoscow suspended the contract in2010, citing a UN Security Council resolution that placed an arms embargo onTehran.

Russian President Vladimir Putin lifted the S-300 delivery ban inApril 2015, shortly afterthe P5+1 group ofinternational negotiators and Iran reached a framework nuclear agreement toremove all economic sanctions againstTehran inexchange forits pledge toensure that all nuclear research inthe country will be forpeaceful purposes.

By Sputnik
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