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To: tsigprofit who wrote (20424)	12/3/2005 6:45:50 PM
From: xcr600	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

Iran to buy $1B in arms from Russia By Mike Eckel The Associated Press MOSCOW - Russia has agreed to sell more than $1 billion worth of missiles and other defense systems to Iran, Russian news media reported Friday, a move expected to draw a heated reaction from the United States. The Interfax and ITAR-Tass news agencies cited unidentified sources in the Russian military-industrial complex as saying that Russian and Iranian officials had signed contracts in November that would send up to 30 Tor-M1 missile systems to Iran during the next two years. Interfax said the Tor-M1 system could identify up to 48 targets and fire at two targets simultaneously at a height of up to 20,000 feet. The news agency quoted its source as saying the two countries had reached a deal on modernizing Iran's air force inventory as well. The deal was also reported in the Vedomosti newspaper, which cited an unidentified manager at a military-industrial enterprise as saying Russia would provide Iran with 29 Tor missile systems that had originally been manufactured on orders from Greece. The state arms-export agency, Rosoboronexport, said it had no information on the reported deal. No Iranian officials were immediately available for comment Friday, a weekly holiday in the country. There were no reports in the Iranian media about the deal. --------------- gotta love that high price of oil.. they've got money to burn on weapons.