Russia stats delivery of S-300 missiles

/By AzerNews/

By Sara Rajabova

Tehran’s envoy has said Moscow finally started the procedure of delivering the S-300 missile system to the Islamic Republic.

Mehdi Sanaei, Iran’s ambassador to Russia said Iran and Russia signed a new contract on the issue and the procedure of delivery of the system is underway, Tasnim news agency reported.

Russia and Iran concluded a contract in 2007 for the supply of S-300 systems, but after the adoption of the UN Security Council Resolution 1929, which provided for the imposition of sanctions on Iran, the realization of the contract was suspended by then president Dmitry Medvedev.

In turn, Tehran went as far as filing a $4 billion lawsuit against Rosoboron Export, Russia’s intermediary agency for exports and imports of defense-related and dual use products, technologies and services, with Geneva's arbitration court.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree in mid-April to lift a ban on the supply of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran.

Iran has recently said it will withdraw legal claims against Russia, when the first part of a contract on supply of S-300 missile defense systems is implemented.

The decision to deliver the missile systems came after Iran and the P5+1 group of countries reached a mutual understanding on Tehran’s nuclear program in Lausanne on April 2.

The recent nuclear deal between P5+1 and Iran, made it easier for the two countries to realize the delivery of missiles.