Russia has started shipping Iran S-300 Surface to air missiles.

Russia has begun supplying parts for the advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missile defense system, according to an IRNA (Iranian national news agency) report on Sunday, which quoted Iranian politician Ismail Kosari. Russian S-300 missiles. Photo: AP Slideshow: Pictures of the week Iran and Russia, after years of negotiations, had finally struck a deal, Kosari was quoted as saying. According to Kosari, Iran's deputy chairman of the parliamentary commission on national security and foreign policy, Teheran will use the S-300 for border security. The Jerusalem Post could not immediately confirm the veracity of the report. Last week, Amos Gilad, the head of the Defense Ministry's Diplomatic-Security Bureau, urged Russia not to sell the S-300 to Iran. "The deliveries of dangerous armaments to our enemies won't serve the interests of peace and, for instance, can help Iran wipe Israel off the face of earth," Gilad was quoted by Interfax as saying. "So we expect Russia to demonstrate responsibility on the issue." Gilad was visiting Moscow and was quoted in response to a question about possible deliveries of the Russian S-300 air defense missiles to Iran. The S-300 is one of the most advanced multi-target anti-aircraft-missile systems in the world today and has a reported ability to track up to 100 targets simultaneously while engaging up to 12 at the same time. It has a range of about 200 kilometers and can hit targets at altitudes of 90,000 feet. The S-300 system was first deployed by the USSR in 1979 and was designed to defend large industrial and administrative facilities and military bases, and to control airspace against enemy aircraft. There are a number of countries throughout Europe in possession of the system, including Belarus, Bulgaria, Germany, Kazakhstan, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, Ukraine and possibly Croatia.

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