The Iranian regime’s defense minister who had been involved in hostage taking and terrorism is visiting Moscow for talks about closer military cooperation.
Officials in Iran announced Monday that the regime in Tehran would spend another $8 billion on the purchase of Russian arms.
The Iranian regime has already handed Moscow a shopping list and the visit by Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan should speed up a number of key arms deals, RT reported.
"Iran would like to buy Russia's latest S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system, developed by Almaz-Antey. And they make no secret of it. On the eve of his visit to Moscow Dehghan openly said to Iranian media they want to purchase the S-400s," the report said quoting sources of the business daily Kommersant.
Days after a preliminary nuclear agreement between the Iranian regime and six world powers, the United Nations adopted a resolution on July 20 forbidding Iran’s regime from purchasing conventional arms for the next five years.
According to Fox News: The ban explicitly forbids “battle tanks, armored combat vehicles, large-caliber artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, [and] warships…” from being purchased by Iran without prior approval from the U.N.
According to the Interfax news agency, the second important topic of the talks in Moscow is Tehran’s possible procurement, or even a licensed production of the new Russian Sukhoi Su-30SM multi-role fighter.
Dehghan's arrival in Moscow Monday comes a month after Iran’s regime received billions of dollars’ worth of sanctions relief when its nuclear deal with world powers went into effect.
Hossein Dehghan, Hassan Rouhani's defense minister, has been among the “student followers of the Imam [Khomeini]” who took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979 and took 52 American diplomats hostage. He also helped found Hezbollah in Lebanon.
He has been one of the architects of the 1983 terror bombing that killed 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service members in Beirut, Lebanon.
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