Iran to sue Russia for S-300 dealbreaker

[ErnstBlofeld]

UPI:

A senior Iranian lawmaker has urged the government in Tehran to sue Russia for scrapping a multimillion-dollar order for the delivery of a sophisticated anti-aircraft missile system.

Russia's decision to block the deal followed intense pressure by the West as it tries to get more transparency from Iran about its controversial nuclear program. The contract concerns the S-300 state-of-the-art anti-aircraft system, which Western and Israeli officials have long suggested that Iran could reverse engineer, if supplied with by Russia.

"According to the S-300 contract, our country should take legal action in accordance with the contents of the deal in a bid to restore the inalienable rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran," said Kazem Jalali of the Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy commission.

Clearly responding to international pressure, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev decreed the ban, nearly five years after Moscow sealed the deal with Tehran.

[ErnstBlofeld]

All bluff. The Russians will compensate them by providing more nuclear fuel. The Iranians will probably buy the HQ-9 from China which is a S-300 knock off.There are unconfirmed rumors that the HQ-9 uses guidance systems that are similar to those developed in U.S. Patriot missile technology.The land-based HQ-9 system has an anti-radiation variant.A anti-radiation missile (ARM) is a missile which is designed to detect and home in on an enemy radio emission source.