Russia to provide Iran with missile defense – Polish Radio

  antyrakiety Russian S-300, which for years is said to have hit Iran , photo: Fig. Wikimedia Commons
 

Value $ 800 million contract to supply missile system was broken in 2010 by President Dmitry Medvedev. According to Russia, held it under pressure from the West due to UN sanctions imposed on Iran for its nuclear development program.

At the beginning of April, world powers have reached an agreement on reducing Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions.

Representatives of Iran and the six powers (USA, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany) have entered into an agreement, which included the key points of the future of the nuclear; it is to be agreed by 30 June and to ensure that Iran does not come into possession of nuclear weapons.

The main elements of a preliminary agreement to limit Iran’s uranium enrichment capability by more than two-thirds. Iran has now have approx. 6 thousand. active centrifuges (compared to 19 thousand. now). In return for the limitation of the program, US and European sanctions against Tehran will gradually repealed, but only after a determination by the IAEA that Iran fulfills the obligations arising from the contract.

Nuclear cooperation with Tehran Moscow

Russia since 1995, working with Iran in the construction and development of power plants in Buszehrze. World powers fear that the facility is used to produce nuclear weapons, and not for civil purposes, as claimed by Tehran.

At the end of last year, Russia and Iran signed an agreement for the sale of two Russian nuclear reactors to the power station .

The agreement also provides for the construction of additional reactors. According to Russian media, there may be in a different place than Bushehr. The agreement does not preclude the cooperation in the production of nuclear fuel components in Iran.

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