IF RUSSIANS STICK TO THEIR GUNS ON THIS,
BAD NEWS FOR IRANIAN NUCLEAR SITES!
A VERY SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT!
EXCERPT 2 EXPLAINS
EXCERPT 1
NO TOR-M1, S-300 FOR IRAN!
October 13, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
If Russia sticks to what you read in Excerpt 2, then Iran is in trouble, and it may lead to some concessions on her nuclear program. Apparently, the Revolutionary Guards Air Force Chief, upon hearing that Russia had suspended the delivery of its TOR-M1, S-300 air, missile defense missiles to Iran, quickly issued the propaganda Iran already possesses a missile arsenal capable of defending all its nuclear sites.
Begin Excerpt 1 from YNet News
Iranian officials: Our missiles are ready
Revolutionary Guards’ Air Force chief tells Fars news agency Iranian Sajjil missiles capable of handling any attack or serious threat from enemy state.
Meanwhile, Iran’s aerial defense commander says, ‘We’ll produce dozens of new antiaircraft missile systems’
Dudi Cohen
October 11, 2009
A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander warned on Sunday that the nation’s Sajjil missiles can handle any attack or serious threat from the state’s enemies.
General Hossein Salami, the Revolutionary Guard’s Air Force chief, commented on the sanctions imposed on Tehran over its nuclear program and its program for the development of surface-to-surface missiles, saying, “Despite the United State’s economic, military, and defensive strength – it is experiencing a loss, but Iran continues to thrive despite the sanctions and its capabilities and strength grow by the day.”
General Salami, quoted by the Iranian news agency Fars, made these comments some two weeks after Iran carried out a drill in which various types of missiles were test fired.
The Sajjil has a range of 2,000 km (1,242 miles), and is a two-stage, solid-fueled missile, which can allow for faster alignment compared to the liquid-fueled Shahab-3 missile.
The Revolutionary Guards’ Air Force is responsible for Iran’s surface-to-surface missiles. The Revolutionary Guard’s army is separate from the Iran’s military, and was set up in 1979 during the Islamic revolution, with its followers considered extremely faithful to the regime’s ideology.
Meanwhile, head of the Iranian Air Force General Ahmad Mikani said his county’s defense system is highly advanced and added that Iran plans to produce dozens of new antiaircraft systems.
The general said Iran is capable of locating and elimination cruise missiles using its advanced radar systems. “We are now at the height of our defensive capabilities,” Mikani w as quoted by Fars
as saying.
The remarks made by Iranian officials are likely meant to serve as a signal to the United States and Israel – who are preparing for a broad military exercise this week –to indicate that Iran will be prepared for any kind of action necessary to defend its sovereignty and nuclear facilities.
Begin Excerpt 2 from DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
Russia halts TOR-M1, S-300 air, missile defense missiles to Iran
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
October 11, 2009, 9:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Russia’s abrupt suspension of consignments of advanced Tor-M1 air defense missiles and S-300 anti-missile systems has left Tehran high and dry for effective weapons to defend itself and its nuclear facilities against attacks.
Our Iranian sources disclose that extreme frustration prompted the boasts of Revolutionary Guards Deputy Commander Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami Sunday, Oct. 11, that Tehran’s hi-tech missiles can repel any attack against the country.
He spoke in the nor
thern town of Sarri.
Regarding sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic, he said: “Today, the US is experiencing demise despite its great economic, defensive and military power, but the Islamic Iran has remained abloom amid waves of animosities and blaze of sanctions and the nation’s power and capability are getting stronger every day.”
Salami went on to sing the praises of the Revolutionary Guards, its power and its missile capability for confronting enemy threats. Our Sejil missiles, he said, can repel any threat and attack.
DEBKAfile’s military sources note that the two-stage solid-fuel Sejil has a range of 2,200 km., is accurate within a 20-meter radius but is after all a ground-to ground missiles which is incapable of repelling missile or air attacks.
The IRGC commander was trying to lift plunging morale in his corps and the Iranian military; both know that denied the top-quality Russi an air defense missiles, Ir
an has no shield against an American or Israeli missile or air attack.
According to our Moscow sources, the Russians froze the transfers of anti-missile, anti-air missiles to Iran in the expectation of Saudi Arabia following through on negotiations for the purchase of the latest word in Russian anti-missile hardware, the S-400, which is more advanced than the S-300 system now withheld from Iran.
It has never been sold to a foreign government and even the Russian army has only two brigades armed with S-400 batteries. The Saudis insisted on making the transaction contingent on Moscow withholding the S-300 and Tor-M1 from Iran.
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