Tuesday, April 8, 2014

'If pressure mounts on Moscow, then the West may end up paying the price for punishing Russia, at the bargaining table with Iran.'

Experts' opinion  for Lake's story are the usual lineup of ziocons & hawks (if one can distinguish)
"... If those talks fail, then Russia has the leverage to equip Iran with the missile that could defend its centrifuges and reactors from allied air strikes, the S-300.“I could see as part of this deal [between Tehran and Moscow] that they would agree to transfer advanced missiles to Iran,” said Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the hawkish Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and an expert in the Iran sanctions. “If [Russian president Vladimir] Putin became angry enough over the West’s financial punishment of Russia, he could put in play the S-300 deal.”
The S-300 has long been Moscow’s top-of-the-line air defense system.
The current model is comparable to U.S. Patriot missile batteries. The S-300 deploys sophisticated radars, launch vehicles and missiles to shoot aircraft and even ballistic missiles out of the sky. Russia has also threatened to sell the system to Syria, whose hapless air force was hacked by Israel in 2007, rendering its anti-aircraft defenses useless when Israel bombed the al-Kibar nuclear facility..."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

bullshit and delirium from a wishful thinking yankee retard...Syria already has S-300s and it used them in shooting an F-22 Raptor out of the sky last year, moreover purportedly "hapless" Syrian Air Force managed to shoot down an intruding turkish plane and at least two zionist F-16 (which were later claimed to be lost over Gaza or during 'training' to avoid embarassment...)