Report: Iran obtains 4 S-300 missiles

***COMMANDER*** · 08-04-10, 06:05 PM

from JPOST http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/N...aspx?id=183608
After sanctions nix deal with Russians, weapons received elsewhere.
Iran has obtained four S-300 surface-to-air missiles a semi-official Iranian news agency claimed Wednesday.
Russia was originally supposed to sell Teheran S-300 missiles but canceled the deal as a result of UN sanctions passed against the Islamic Republic for refusing to cease its uranium enrichment program. The West fears Iran will use the enriched uranium to create nuclear weapons, while Teheran insists the program is for peaceful purposes.
The Fars news agency, which has ties to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard, Iran's most powerful military force, said Iran received two missiles from Belarus and two others from another unspecified source. Fars did not elaborate, and there was no immediate official confirmation of the report.

I have a feeling, this isn't going to go over to well.

***COMMANDER*** · 08-04-10, 06:07 PM

Couldn't find anything else on any of the other news sources, but I am sure they will have a report out soon.

**Arreo** · 08-04-10, 06:07 PM

10 to 1 Israel sends some F15s to bomb the shit out of those missiles one of these days.

***COMMANDER*** · 08-04-10, 06:26 PM

I think you can start counting down at this point.

**SpecOpsScott** · 08-04-10, 09:10 PM

In 1993, Iran procured an unidentified number of S-300PMU-1 missiles from Russia. Kuwait expressed its own interest shortly afterward.(12) According to a 1993 report, “the S-300PMU is being marketed extensively, particularly in the Middle East.”(13) The following year, Hungary received its own supply of Russian S-300s: the deal paid off Russia’s $800 million debt to its former Warsaw Pact ally.(14) In November 1996, Mikhail Timkin, deputy manager of the Rosvooruzheniye state arms export company, bragged that he had found two more buyers for the S-300P: “Cyprus is in the bag, we’ve wrapped it up completely. It buys only our weapons now. We have even got into NATO, can you imagine? I am in charge of Turkey, and I can tell you that Turkey is now buying weapons from us.”(15) A few years later, Greece was added to the list.(16)

http://www.missilethreat.com/missile...tem_detail.asp

I thought 4 was a rather low number to bat an eyelash about... apparently there are more from 17 years ago, and its not a far stretch to imagine that "unidentified number" of s-300's have been modernized.