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Russia Assures Iran of S-300 Delivery
FNA
 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that his country will deliver the S-300 air defense
systems to Iran after some "technical" issues are sorted out.
Lavrov said the contract to sell the defense missiles to Iran was in place but some issues needed to be resolved.
"There is a contract and there are few things which need to be sorted out before fulfilling it," Lavrov said.
Lavrov said Moscow is guided by principles laid down in its domestic laws and international
obligations of not taking any steps which could jeopardize the stability in the region.
"All our arms deliveries are consonant with this principle and we expect other nations also to be
guided by it, who not only supply defensive but also other weapons, which had killed our peacekeepers," Lavrov said in an obvious reference to the US and Israeli weapons used by
Georgia in August 2008 to regain control over breakaway South Ossetia under protection of the CIS peacekeeping force.
However, last week in New Delhi the deputy chief of the agency for foreign arms supplies said
the issue was technical and deliveries would commence as soon as it is sorted out.
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