Iran claims successful test of homemade S-300 missile

[Iran claims successful test of homemade S-300 missile]

Iran recently announced that it has tested a “local” version of the S-300 surface-to-air missile system whose delivery Russia nixed back in September. “We have developed the system by upgrading systems like S-200 and we have tested it successfully using all our potential and experience in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), the Army and the Defense Ministry,” Iranian Brigadier General Mohammad Hassan Mansourian told the Islamic Republic’s state-funded Press TV late yesterday. Years ago, Russia had agreed to sell the relatively advanced S-300 air defense missiles to Iran. But following repeated delays in their actual delivery, Russia canceled the sale in September because or pressure from and improved ties with the United States. The announcement comes amidst a chest-thumping air defense exercise that Iran has been conducting this week around the country’s nuclear sites. The S-300’s longer range and improved engagement capability over Iran’s existing air defenses might have given the United States and Israel pause when considering an attack on Iran’s nuclear program …

U.S.: Building freeze must cover Jerusalem … no F-35 warplanes for free

Obama administration officials deny Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu came away from his marathon meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on November 11 with a pledged package of major incentives for a 90-day settlement construction freeze, DEBKAfile’s Jerusalem and Washington sources report. The scale of US benefits as presented by the prime minister to Israel’s security and foreign affairs cabinet November 13 and the full cabinet November 14 is described in Washington as misleading. According to that briefing, Washington was prepared to leave Jerusalem out of Israel’s second building moratorium on disputed territory and offered to let Israel have a second batch of 30 F-25 stealth warplanes free of charge, in addition to the first 20 Israel had already purchased. Our US sources deny Clinton extended any such far-reaching benefits at their meeting and agreed to nothing beyond US political support and diplomatic guarantees . . . Netanyahu was pushed up against the wall by being caught out assuring the cabinet of more than he can deliver, a gambit he attempted for the sake of overcoming the objections of most of his ministers to a second building freeze in the hope that the Obama [administration] would be forthcoming after the event …

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