The Russian Federation has delivered new anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran and will consider further requests by Tehran for defensive weapons, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Tuesday.This one billion dollar deal is set to deliver the TOR-M1 system developed in the Russian federation for anti-aircraft purposes.
This new system delivery throws a huge block in the weapons ban placed on the Iranian nation. "We have supplied the modern short-range anti-aircraft systems TOR-M1 in accordance with our contracts," Ivanov told reporters. "Iran is not under sanctions and if it wants to buy defensive ... equipment for its armed forces then why not?"
This type of attitude is the essential key to understanding the defense industry and international relations. When nations feel that its in their best interests to develop their defense the rule of international anarchy will prevail. A sanction is only as strong as the nations which enforce it, and when billions are involved, a sanction can be manipulated to serve an economic purpose.
These new systems will also serve a key defense position against possible military agression by the air of any power which wishes to see its nuclear program disabled. Perhaps Tehran is trying to avoid a repeat of the Israeli 1981 attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor Osraik.
Whatever the goals of the nation, the increase in weapons systems will undoubtedly cause many feathers to be ruffled in the State Department.
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