“We have said since the very first day that there will be no problem for selling weapons to Iran from October 19,” Levan Dzhagaryan told the Resalat daily in an interview published Saturday, according to Iran’s Fars news agency.
In August, the UN Security Council voted down a US resolution to extend the arms embargo on Iran, which is now set to expire on October 18. The Trump administration, however, unilaterally asserted last month that “snapback” UN sanctions are now in force and vowed to punish those that violate them.
Dzhagaryan brushed off the threat of US sanctions and said Moscow would consider any weapon requests from Iran after October 18.
“As you know we have provided Iran with S-300. Russia does not have any problem to deliver S-400 to Iran and it did not have any problem before either,” he said.
Dzhagaryan was referring to the delivery of the S-300 to Iran following the signing of the 2015 deal between Tehran and world powers that placed curbs on the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. In 2010 Russia froze a deal to supply the system to Iran, linking the decision to UN sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear program. (Read More)
