Senior MP: Russia to accomplish delivery of all S-300 missile systems to Iran by yearend

The Iran-Russia contract on the supply of several S-300 missile defense systems to Tehran will be accomplished by the end of 2016, Fars News Agency quoted a senior lawmaker as saying on Saturday.

"Fortunately we see that Russia has fully complied with its commitments on the delivery of the S-300 missile defense systems to Iran and they will be delivered to Iran before the start of 2017," member of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Javad Jamali Nobandegan said on Saturday.

The prominent legislator said that full implementation of the delivery of S-300 defense systems will help Iran in all areas, adding, "We see today that Iran and Russia have promoted their ties to strategic levels."

A battalion of the S-300 missile defense system was showed off in military parades in Tehran earlier this year without displaying the missiles. The missiles were supplied to Iran later. Russia is due to deliver several more S-300 missile systems to Iran by the end of 2016.

Commander of Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli announced in mid-July that the supply of the S-300 missile defense system was moving on its natural course and the remaining parts would be supplied to Iran by the end of the current year (ends March 20, 2017).

Noting that Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base has deployed the S-300 missile shield that it has received from Russia, he said that the missile defense system monitors and defends the country's airspace as part of Iran's integrated defense network round the clock.

Esmayeeli also announced his forces' plan to stage different drills in the country and unveil new technologies and productions in the missile field.

Source : MENA