Russia has already delivered half of S-300 air defense systems to Iran under the existing contract, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told reporters following russia-Iran-Azerbaijan summit in Baku on Monday.


�BAKU (Sputnik)�� Head of�Russia's Rostec corporation, Sergei Chemezov, said in�July that Russia was planning to�complete the deliveries of�the S-300 air defense systems to�Iran by�the end of�2016.


The $800-million Moscow-Tehran contract to�deliver Russian S-300 systems to�Iran was signed in�2007. It was suspended after�the adoption of�UN Security Council sanctions on�Iran in�mid-2010.

In 2011, Iran sued Russia in�the Geneva Arbitration Court after�Moscow suspended the contract in�2010, citing a UN Security Council resolution that placed an arms embargo on�Tehran.

Russian President Vladimir Putin lifted the S-300 delivery ban in�April 2015, shortly after�the P5+1 group of�international negotiators and Iran reached a framework nuclear agreement to�remove all economic sanctions against�Tehran in�exchange for�its pledge to�ensure that all nuclear research in�the country will be for�peaceful purposes.

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