Tehran expects to sign an agreement on Russian supplies of the S-300 to Iran next week, the Syrian news agency SANA reported today, citing a statement of the Iranian Defense Minister, General Hussein Dekhkan, TASS reports.
"Moscow and Tehran will sign a contract for the supply of S-300 missile systems to Iran in the next week," the agency cites the Iranian Minister of Defense.
On August 14 Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Ryabkov stated that "the decision on the possibility of delivery of S-300 to Iran is accepted by the Russian President, the technicalities of this issue are being worked out now."
