Russia completes Iran missile deliveries: Tass (Reuters)

[Eugene]

Russia completes Iran missile deliveries: Tass

Reuters
Tuesday, January 23, 2007; 12:58 AM

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has completed a contract to deliver its TOR-M1 anti-aircraft
missile systems to Iran, Itar-Tass news agency quoted Sergei Chemezov, head of state
arms exporter Rosoboronexport as saying on Tuesday.

"(Russia) fully completed delivery to Iran of the TOR-M1 missile complexes at the end
of December 2006," Tass quoted Chemezov as saying. The deal to supply the missiles has
angered the United States and Israel.

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Washington and Israel say Iran -- under international sanctions over its nuclear program
-- could use the missile systems to attack its neighbors and undermine security in the
Middle East.

Russia says the missiles only operate over a short-range and are a purely defensive weapon.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/23/AR2007012300034.html

[Just-plain-Kathy]

1. Shit! ...Bush is claiming we should go into Iran because they're

fueling the war in Iraq...Now what happens? Do we fight Russia for helping Iran?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. take that, Mr. Cheney.

how do like them apples?

You bastard, you, you are getting us into a world war - just so your corporate heads can profit again.

[madrchsod]

3. pissed off cause this defensive system

screws up their plans to start ww3?