Iran has received its first shipment of missiles for the sophisticated S-300 air defense system, the Iranian Tasnim media outlet reported Monday.
Russia is supplying Iran with the advanced S-300 PMU2 system rather than the PMU1 system–information that was previously withheld. Moscow began in April delivering the S-300 missile defense system to Tehran, which displayed part of it in a military parade held to mark National Army Day on April 17.
“The first shipment of missiles of S-300 missile system has recently entered Iran that shows Iran’s determination to equip its air defense circle with this system,” the Revolutionary Guard-linked Tasnim news agency reported.
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Israeli Air Force commander Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel said last year that the missile system was “significant but not insurmountable for the IAF,” according to the Times of Israel.
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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jaberi Ansari said in April that the system’s delivery had already begun.
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Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili, Iran’s Air Defense Commander, has said that the S-300 system will be fully operational at the end of the Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2017).
Full article: Report: Iran Receives First S-300 Missile Shipment From Russia (Washington Free Beacon)
