{"id":5385,"date":"2009-01-01T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T15:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5385"},"modified":"2009-01-01T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T15:52:09","slug":"ria-novosti-s-300s-for-iran-an-argument-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5385","title":{"rendered":"RIA Novosti: S-300s for Iran: an argument for peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.rian.ru\/analysis\/20081219\/118949581.html\">15:46 19\/12\/2008<\/a><br \/>\nMOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The likelihood of Russia supplying S-300 surface-to-air systems to Iran has always been a headache for the United States and its allies.<\/p>\n<p>For several years the media has reported the conclusion of a contract or even the actual shipment of long-range air defense missiles to Iran. As a rule, these reports came from Iranian sources and were later denied by Russia.<\/p>\n<p>On December 17, 2008, RIA Novosti, quoting confidential sources, reported on its website that Russia is to deliver S-300 surface-to-air systems to Iran. Which, based on previous experience, is most likely true. How will the balance of strength change in this region if Iran really gets the systems? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.en.rian.ru\/photolents\/20070208\/60402179.html\" target=\"_blank\">(Russian mobile surface-to-air missile systems &#8211; Image gallery)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before considering an answer, it is necessary to see what weapons Iran&#8217;s armed forces will receive and in what quantities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/en.rian.ru\/analysis\/20081219\/118949581.html\">Read the article<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/stopiranwar\/\">hat tip<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15:46 19\/12\/2008 MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik) The likelihood of Russia supplying S-300 surface-to-air systems to Iran has always been a headache for the United States and its allies. For several years the media has reported the conclusion &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5385\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1oR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5385"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5390,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}