Russia to set up missile shield for Iran

The Hindu ^ | 28DEC07 | Vladimir Radyuhin

[RusIvan]

MOSCOW: Russia will set up a massive anti-missile shield in Iran that will virtually guarantee the country against military attacks.

Moscow will supply Tehran with the advanced long-range S-300 surface-to-air missile complexes, informed Russian sources said. ==

Your source is absolute illiterate:). How so the anti-airecraft missiles(S-300) became anti-missile shield?

[Convert from ECUSA]

Remember back when, when the MSM, a lot of the politicians, and the “experts” were all going on about Russia being “our friend?” Remember when Dubya said in effect that he looked into Putin’s eyes and saw a good soul? Russia played us for suckers.

[Grampa Dave]

The shield is probably the same quality as the one they sold to Syria.

[Tommyjo]

The Russians hadn’t sold anything to Syria apart from MANPADs. All the stories are simply tales that Russian had supplied Pantsir short-range air defence systems to Syria. Syria still had the old systems in place. It was the media who hyped fantastic tales of newly delivered Russian SAM systems.

[M. Espinola]

Here is some info on a fraction of the weapons Putin has sold our enemies:

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Russia to Sell Advanced Anti-Aircraft Missiles to Iran
By VOA News 26 December 2007

Iran says Russia is selling Tehran advanced anti-aircraft missiles, but did not say when they will arrive.

The S-300 air defense system has a radar that can track many targets at the same time, and missiles that can hit targets anywhere from just above the treetops to 27 kilometers in the sky.

The S-300 compliments a shorter-range Russian system sold to Iran earlier.

Iran's announcement that it is upgrading its air defenses was made during a time of international tensions over Iranian nuclear programs that western nations fear could be used to make nuclear weapons.

The United States has never ruled out military action against the suspected nuclear weapons projects, but a recently published U.S. intelligence report said Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program several years ago.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.

(The real Putin)