RUSSIA CONFIRMS SALE OF ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILE SYSTEM TO IRAN

RUSSIA IS HELPING IRAN DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST A POSSIBLE ISRAELI OR AMERICAN STRIKE AGAINST IRAN'S NUKES.

Russia Confirms Sale of Missiles to Iran as Part of $1 Billion Deal (NYSun)
"Russia has delivered new anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran and will consider further requests by Tehran for defensive weapons, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Tuesday," Reuters reports.

"We have supplied the modern short-range anti-aircraft systems TOR-M1 in accordance with our contracts," Ivanov told reporters "Iran is not under sanctions and if it wants to buy defensive ... equipment for its armed forces then why not?"

A defense ministry source later told Reuters deliveries of hardware under the $1 billion deal, which has been criticised by the West, have not yet been completed.

So while Russia is now openly helping Iran to defend herself from attack, we're relying on Russia to stop Iran's nuclear program by working through the United Nations -- and giving Russia a veto over our national security by doing so. Make sense?

THEN AGAIN WHO ARE WE TO SAY ANYTHING?....

Pentagon Sold Fighter Jet Parts and Missile Components to Iran? (NYSun)
It's not only Britain, France, and Canada that has been supplying Iran with weapons -- it's America as well.

The AP reports:

The U.S. military has sold forbidden equipment at least a half-dozen times to middlemen for countries -- including Iran and China -- who exploited security flaws in the Defense Department's surplus auctions. The sales include fighter jet parts and missile components.

In one case, federal investigators said, the contraband made it to Iran, a country President Bush branded part of an "axis of evil." In that instance, a Pakistani arms broker convicted of exporting U.S. missile parts to Iran resumed business after his release from prison. He purchased Chinook helicopter engine parts for Iran from a U.S. company that had bought them in a Pentagon surplus sale. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, speaking on condition of anonymity, say those parts made it to Iran. The surplus sales can operate like a supermarket for arms dealers.

"Right Item, Right Time, Right Place, Right Price, Every Time. Best Value Solutions for America's Warfighters," the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service says on
its Web site, calling itself "the place to obtain original U.S. Government surplus property."

Federal investigators are increasingly anxious that Iran is within easy reach of a top priority on its shopping list: parts for the precious fleet of F-14 "Tomcat" fighter jets the United States let Iran buy in the 1970s when it was an ally.

In one case, convicted middlemen for Iran bought Tomcat parts from the Defense Department's surplus division. Customs agents confiscated them and returned them to the Pentagon, which sold them again - customs evidence tags still attached - to another buyer, a suspected broker for Iran.