Moscow to Deliver Modernized Version of S-300 to Iran: Report
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Russia will deliver to Tehran a modernized version of the S-300 air defense system that is currently being updated for the Iranian customers, Russian Presidential Aide Vladimir Kozhin said Thursday.
“It would be the S-300 system, which Iran specifically asked for. It has been a long time (since Russia and Iran signed the deal on S-300 systems delivery), the system has been partially upgraded, but certain elements are still being updated,” Kozhin told RIA Novosti.
In 2007, Russia and Iran signed an $800 million deal for the delivery of the S-300 surface-to-air missile systems. It was terminated by the then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in 2010 after the United Nations imposed an arms embargo on Iran.
In reaction to Russia’s refusal to deliver the system, Iran filed a $4 billion lawsuit against Rosoboronexport at the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration in Geneva.
After Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, US, Britain, France, and Germany) reached a framework agreement on Iran's nuclear energy program in April, Putin overturned Medvedev's decision lifting the ban on the S-300 deliveries.
