Russia Said To Suspend S-300 To Iran
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Russia was said to have suspended the delivery of the
S-300 air defense system to Iran.
Israeli sources said the Kremlin has ordered a halt to the delivery of
the S-300PMU2 to Iran. They said three batteries have arrived but the last
two were held back by Russia because of lack of Iranian payment.
"Russia has yet again frozen transfers of S-300 missile systems to
Iran," Israeli defense analyst Alex Fishman said.
On May 26, Fishman said in a report for Israel's Ynet news agency that
Moscow transferred three out of five S-300 missile batteries. But Fishman
said delivery of the remaining two batteries was suspended because Iran has
not paid for them.
"The systems that have already arrived are incomplete systems, as the
Iranians have been unable to pay for all of the components," Fishman said.
The sources said Russia has not delivered complete interceptors for the
S-300. But they said Russia has failed to guarantee that the missiles would
not be operational in 2016.
"It's clear that the Russians want to drag this out, but it's not clear
how long this can go on without another crisis with Iran," a source said.
"Moscow, however, does not want a crisis."

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