This week (April 13), President Vladimir Putin signed an ukaz (presidential decree) to allow the export of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. Putin’s decision overruled a previous ukaz signed by then-president Dmitry Medvedev, on September 22, 2010, which incorporated into Russian law United Nations Security Council Resolution 1929 imposing, among other things, a limited arms embargo on Iran for continuing uranium enrichment. In 2007, Tehran signed a contract to buy five S-300PMU-1 anti-aircraft missile “complexes” for some $800 million, with some 40 missile launchers, an array of different radars and other control equipment, together with spare missiles. Russia voted to …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation
