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Iran interested in Russian weapons

Politics Materials 14 November 2016 15:01 (UTC +04:00)
Iran is interested in the purchase of a wide range of Russian weapons and Moscow is ready to develop military and technical cooperation with Tehran, Sputnik quoted Zamir Kabulov, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s director of the Second Asian Department, as saying.
Iran interested in Russian weapons

Iran is interested in the purchase of a wide range of Russian weapons and Moscow is ready to develop military and technical cooperation with Tehran, Sputnik quoted Zamir Kabulov, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s director of the Second Asian Department, as saying.

In October, Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanaei said that Tehran was looking for ways to broaden the scope of defense cooperation with Moscow, even in areas that require coordination with the UN Security Council (UNSC) and need a resolution.

“It is true that the Iranians have a wide range of military-purpose products they would like to buy in Russia. Naturally, some of these products — tanks and fighter jets — are covered by the UNSC sanctions, because there is a moratorium,” Kabulov said commenting on Sanaei’s statement.

“It means that if we sign an agreement on the delivery of such products, we have to request for the UNSC permission in the next five, or rather, the next four years and receive such permission,” he added.

Moscow is ready to work with Iran in the area of military and technical cooperation, according to Kabulov.

“There are other goods from the sphere of military and technical cooperation that are not subject [to the UNSC sanctions]. There are no problems, but here we should act via the UNSC mechanism, unfortunately," the diplomat said.

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