PHOTO: Russia’s still-undelivered S-300 missiles to Iran — strategic value or symbolic importance?
Today’s Western media are filled with the headline that Russia has agreed to deliver S-300 missiles to Iran, changing the military dynamic around Tehran and the Middle East.
The story is misleading — see Iran Daily for the explanation — but it gave leading defense correspondent Robert Fox and me the opportunity to discuss the wider issues with Monocle 24’s The Daily.
Listen from the 4:33 mark:
This is a political move. This is a move by the Russians and Iranians to say, “We’re working together. In the key conflicts like Syria we are going to stand up to the US, we’re going to stand up to the Gulf States, and you’re not going to divide us.”
