Shocker: Putin Sells Iran Missile Defense

From those lovers of nuclear proliferation at Reuters:

An S-300 missile is test-fired in Ukraine.

Iran to get missile system from Russia: report

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Russia has agreed to sell an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Iran, Iran’s defense minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday, a report likely to irritate the United States.

S-300 missiles are longer-ranging than the TOR-M1 surface-to-air missiles which Russia, in a deal criticized by the West, earlier this year said it had delivered to the Islamic Republic under a $1 billion contract…

“The S-300 system, under a contract signed in the past with Russia, will be delivered to Iran,” Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar told Fars News Agency, without giving details.

“The timing of the delivery … will be announced later,” he said. The ISNA news agency carried a similar report.

The United States and Israel — Tehran’s arch foes — have said Iran could use the TOR-M1 system to attack its neighbors. Russia says it is a short-range system and purely defensive.

Najjar said last month Iran would never launch an attack against another country but warned that anybody trying to invade Iran would “face a crushing response.” …

Gosh, how shocking.

Funny how none of the heavily touted sanctions against Iran stopped this from happening.

It’s almost as if they are meaningless.