{"id":188441,"date":"2010-09-26T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/26\/russia-will-not-sell-s-300-to-iran\/"},"modified":"2010-09-26T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T01:22:00","slug":"russia-will-not-sell-s-300-to-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/26\/russia-will-not-sell-s-300-to-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Will Not Sell S-300 to Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <span>Medvedev<\/span> has announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2010\/09\/nyet-russia-now-wont-sell-badass-missile-to-iran\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WiredDangerRoom+%28Blog+-+Danger+Room%29\">the Sale of S-300 surface to air missiles to Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has always taken a minimalist approach to obeying UN sanctions regarding the Iranian nuclear, so this is a big deal, particularly since these missiles, with their 400+ km detection range, end up as a formidable area defense system against conventional aircraft, and a formidable point defense system against stealthy targets, at least to the degree that my <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/russia-to-export-worlds-most-capable.html\">wild <span>assed<\/span> guess regarding detection range<\/a> are justified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Medvedev has announced that the Sale of S-300 surface to air missiles to Iran. Russia has always taken a minimalist approach to obeying UN sanctions regarding the Iranian nuclear, so this is a big deal, particularly since these missiles, with their 400+ km detection range, end up as a formidable area defense system against &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1034,1180,1042,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-iran","category-missiles","category-proliferation","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}