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Tension between Russia and Israel for the supply of S-300 air defense system to Iran

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(Defensa.com) After Vladimir Putin last week gave its approval to supply S-300 air defense system to Iran have been quick reactions occur Israel. As discussed above, Israel has strongly criticized the delivery of this air defense system to Iran by Russia, who had good relations in recent years. So much angered the Russian decision Israeli media have reported the possibility that Israel will supply military equipment to Ukraine in response.

Although this possibility has not been officially announced by Israel, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Saturday of the possible supply of Israel to Ukraine. He called this idea counterproductive if it is lethal weaponry as it believes it will have no effect other than to increase the level of confrontation and the number of victims to bring the same result. He also took to remember that the S-300 is a defense system so Israel should not consider his defensive ability eroded with the arrival from east to Iran.

Israel and Russia maintained good relations in recent years so that Israel had decided not to sell military equipment or Ukraine or Georgia and Russia had canceled the sale of the S-300 to an Arab country, supposedly Syria, although in 2005 if agreed to sell the Tor M-1, another anti-aircraft missile medium Iran, which does not sit well in Israel.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned Vladimir Putin last 14 to express the grave concern posed to Israel the sale of this air defense system because it believes that providing this sensitive material will serve to embolden Iran and further destabilize more Middle East.Netanyahu reminded Putin that there are certain "red lines" that could not afford such as the arrival of Russian weapons to Hezbollah through Iran or Syria.

The last episode of this tension has occurred Sunday when Israeli newspapers collected statements from official Israeli Ministry of Defense in recognizing that could attack Russian-made military means to prevent Hezbollah came through Iran or Syria. Also stated that Israel is monitoring the movement of Russian material in the area, including antiaircraft missiles SA-22 short-range SA-17 medium-range through Syria Iran could reach its allies in Lebanon.

Recall that the main concern of Israel in relation to the S-300 is that Israel maintains years the trick of taking unilateral military action against Iran if it considers that the nuclear program poses a threat. The presence of S-300 protects the main Iranian nuclear facilities would jeopardize the success of this operation. Moreover Israel has repeatedly warned it will not allow advanced military equipment or chemical weapons could reach the hands of groups like Hezbollah or any other operating in the Syrian conflict and pose a threat to Israel.

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Naval Today said:
DCNS started cutting metal for the very first GOWIND® 2500 corvette under construction in Lorient, in the presence of high representatives of the Egyptian Navy.

This vessel is the first of a series of four units that will be delivered to Egypt before 2019.

The cutting of the first metal sheets for the first GOWIND® 2500 corvette built in Lorient symbolises the launch of the ambitious industrial program conducted by DCNS for the Egyptian Navy. It includes the construction of four latest-generation corvettes, both in France and Egypt. The delivery of the first vessel is slated for 2017, i.e., less than four years after the signature of the contract last summer.

The first Egyptian GOWIND® 2500 corvette will be built on the DCNS site in Lorient, while the three following units will be built in Alexandria within the frame of a construction technology transfer agreement.

The GOWIND® 2500 is a product on the worldwide corvette market. This vessel responds to the needs of navies to have access to a complete and multi-mission combat vessel for sovereignty and maritime protection operations and the fight against illicit trafficking. Ten corvettes have already been ordered by Malaysia (6 units) and Egypt (4 units).

The GOWIND® 2500 is equipped with the very latest technological advances, developed and implemented by DCNS for naval defence. It incorporates the SETIS combat system, developed by DCNS for FREMM frigates and GOWIND® corvettes, the “Panoramic Sensors and Intelligence Module (PSIM)” – an assembly bringing together the integrated mast with its various instruments as well as the Operational Centre and its associated technical rooms – and the high degree of integration, automation and conviviality of the DCNS systems.

Characteristics:
Total length: 102 metres
Width: 16 metres
Displacement: 2,600 tonnes
Max. speed: 25 knots
Crew: 65 persons (helicopter detachment included)
Range: 3,700 nautical miles at 15 knots

These are going to be very capable vessels. Their armament (for the 2,500 ton vessels) will include:

1 ×
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main gun
2 ×
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16 × VLS for
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surface-to-air missiles
8 × MBDA MM40
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antiship missile launchers
2 × triple torpedo launcher

Nice capabilities and the Egyptians will get four, with options for two more. This in addition to the FREMM frigate they are getting.
 

FORBIN

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Price about 250/300 mill € half a FREMM. Definitely replace 2 Knox maybe also others ships ?

Except MB Ambassador this Navy have only old ships 30+ years
Replace her 4 Romeo which use Sub Harpoon unusual by 4 new Type 209 first in 2017.

The more large Godwin variant " Combat " would be used by Malaysian Navy, 6 do 3100 t, 111 m same number of misiles as GOWIND 2500 but armed with a 57 mm gun instead a 76 mm.
 

kwaigonegin

Colonel
No
This is bad news

He is very dangerous for the Presidency
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Iran Spymaster Qasem Suleimani for President?


Iranian media have been buzzing with the notion that Qasem Suleimani, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ expeditionary Quds Force, could be the country’s next president.

Headlines have praised his achievements as a military leader—crediting him with freeing the town of Amirli from the grip of the so-called Islamic State and providing Syria’s Bashar al Assad with essential support. They’ve also marveled at his wider political efforts to promote Shia expansion.

But whether or not the commander extends his reach beyond the military realm is not really the point. For many, it is what he symbolizes that really counts: a strong leader with a solid record and absolute devotion to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei—and an ability to combine political intelligence with military might.

Such speculation is not new. Hardliner analyst and Tehran University professor Mohammad Sadegh Kooshki first raised the prospect of Suleimani as a presidential contender back in October 2012. But over the last year or so, Suleimani has enjoyed greater media attention, lending the theory more credibility than ever before.

In the 2013 elections, he did not appear on any surveys listing the top 10 public figures in Iran, but now he comes top of the list alongside the current President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.:(

Suleimani’s emergence as a public figure, even a celebrity, is a marked change from his previous image as an influential figure behind the scenes. Over the last year, Suleimani has appeared on television regularly, addressed large audiences and grieved publicly for members of the Iranian military killed by Islamic State.

On February 16, 2014, the commander signaled that his ambitions involve more than just initiating effective military operations. During a speech at a Revolutionary Guards base, he outlined Islam’s long history, from its reach into Andalusia and its later decline, to its recent resurgence thanks to Ayatollah Khomeini and Iran’s Islamic Revolution. Islamic influence and power, he said, was once again on the rise and Iran is in a particularly strong position to lead the revival of Shiism, making it a political, religious and economic powerhouse and ensuring its borders are safe and secure.

Hardline Iranian media are more than ready to see Suleimani as the leader of this new era of change.

Suleimani’s emergence as a public figure, even a celebrity, is a marked change from his previous image as an influential figure behind the scenes.
On August 8, 2014, the website “Nuclear Iran,” which is edited by Mehdi Mohammadi, a nuclear negotiator under former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, published an article that claimed that, when it came to regional politics and military operations, Suleimani had the last word, often shaping Iran’s official stance on a range of matters.

The article went on to describe his accomplishments: “(1) Managing the political crisis in Iraq, keeping the Shiite coalition together and the premiership of Haider al-Abadi [who replaced Nouri al-Maliki]; (2) creating a new faction in the Iraqi parliament led by Ibrahim al-Jaafari [prime minister of Iraq from 2005 to 2006]; (3) bringing the Kurds into the fight against Islamic State; (4) Improving relations between the Kurds and the Shia central government in Iraq; and (5) Keeping Nouri al-Maliki as a political asset in Iraq.”

And, according to Sadollah Zarei, an analyst with close ties to the Iranian military, Suleimani also gives the Saudis a reason for concern. Speaking to Defa Press on September 20, 2014, he said, “the Saudis are extremely worried that with developments in Yemen…the case of Saudi Arabia will be passed on to Commander Suleimani.”

The idea that Suleimani is a potential contender in 2017’s presidential elections has also been dismissed as a false notion dreamed up by Western media or reformists. But looking at the trajectory of his media presence shows that hardline media and politicians have invested in this narrative, and Suleimani has to some extent engineered it himself.

“Capable, a good manager, polite and moral,” is how Mohammad Sadegh Kooshki described Suleimani in 2012. He is formidable against foreign enemies and challenges, he wrote, but also respects the law. “He knows his boundaries.” And, in addition to this, Kooshki said, ”the more famous he becomes around the world, the more humble he becomes towards the regime and the Supreme Leader”—an attitude that no doubt gains him wide support among hardliners.

Acording to Kooshki, an Iranian president must “enforce the law, obey the Supreme Leader, have a coordinated executive team, accurately understand the regime’s big plans and goals, and be faithful to them. His record must be free of the slightest taint of standing against the Leadership or ignoring his announced directives and policies.”

Citing other praise for him in the media, he called Suleimani a “thoughtful and deep strategist” and an “international figure,” somebody “who is not starving for negotiations and relations. And his friends know that he would not exchange an approving smile from the Supreme Leader for the world.”

Hardliner media has been especially fond of documenting Suleimani’s travels around Iran. Photographs of the commander smiling as he greets the people of one province or another have become a staple of Iran’s news cycle, reminding the public of the commander’s popularity, moral qualities, and bravery.

Although hardliners would like Suleimani to one day be president, the recent media hype is more about presenting the Quds leader as a symbol, an icon that represents all that an Iranian president should be. It is about reminding reformists, the public and independent journalists that military and political power are intertwined in Iran.

Whether Qasem Suleimani can be president one day is not really the question. In Iran, complex political games begin with the most ordinary and simple moves or seemingly unimportant events. Perhaps he will move towards the presidency, or perhaps one of his close associates will move in that direction. For now he is playing a very important role: encapsulating what many in the country believe Iran needs, a strong leader with solid devotion to the regime, the Supreme Leader and the project of pushing Shia Islam into the wider world. It is the sort of narrative and image, they believe, that gives Iran’s political system such strength and resilience.

This article is adapted from one that originally appeared on IranWire, a partner of The Daily Beast.

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Sharyat, since you're an insider how influencial or powerful is the president anyway?
Is he more like a puppet to the Ayatollahs or even the Khobregan or does the president actually hold very distinct power?
 
:) přítel Jura maybe no sure difficult for know these details but no the double, ...

of course we may never know the price ... but I searched Internet, found
La Tribune said the missiles could add another 300-400 million to the price tag.
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and if this was true (I have no idea if it is, or if it is not, though :) it would mean the price of weaponry will be added to 1b already announced ... then it could be about 200m for torps; 200m for Exocets; plus helos and 3" guns ... that's why I'm guessing the total amount would be 2b

P.S. All prices in Euros! LOL
 

ShahryarHedayat

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Tom Cotton: Military Action Against Iran Would Take Only 'Several Days'

Sen. Tom Cotton accused President Obama of holding up a "false choice" between his framework deal on Iran's nuclear program and war. He also seemed to diminish what military action against Iran would entail.

"Even if military action were required, the president is trying to make you think it would be 150,000 heavy mechanized troops on the ground in the Middle East again as we saw in Iraq," the freshman Arkansas Republican senator said on a
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Tuesday hosted by the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins. "That's simply not the case.

"It would be something more along the lines of what President Clinton did in December 1998 during Operation Desert Fox. Several days of air and naval bombing against Iraq's weapons of mass destruction facilities for exactly the same kind of behavior. For interfering with weapons inspectors and for disobeying Security Council resolutions. All we're asking is that the president simply be as tough in the protection of America's national security interest as Bill Clinton was."


That bombing operation
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and hit nearly 100 Iraqi targets after U.N. inspectors said Iraq had not fully cooperated with inspections.

"The only thing worse than an Iran with nuclear weapons would be an Iran with nuclear weapons that one or more countries attempted to prevent them from obtaining by military strikes — and failed,"
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Ryan Crocker, the former U.S. ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan, in 2013.

It's not the first time bombing Iran has come up around political campaigns. It was almost exactly five years when John McCain
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, singing "that old Beach Boys song, 'Bomb Iran.' ":D


"Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, anyway, ah ...." he sang to the tune of "Barbara Ann."
McCain, though, has also long noted that military action should be a
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Hillary Clinton even said during that election cycle that if Iran attacked Israel with a nuclear weapon, "We would be able to totally obliterate them."


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ShahryarHedayat

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Senior Iranian, Russian Military Officials to Discuss S-300 Missil
e Systems Delivery Soon


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US Air Force Colonel: Russia's sale of advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Iran is a game-changer


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US can ‘penetrate’ S-300 air defenses in Iran if necessary – Obama


However good Russia’s S-300 air defense system is, when supplied to Iran the US will be capable of dealing with it, President Barack Obama said in an interview to MSNBC. He mentioned the Pentagon’s incredible budget compared to Iran’s as proof.

The US objects to the upcoming deployment of Russian-made S-300 air defense systems in Iran and has expressed its concern, Obama said in an interview. “But as I said before we have to keep it in perspective.”

The president compared the $600 billion US defense budget to the Iranian military spending of a “little over $17 billion.”

“Even if they have some air defense systems, if we had to, we could penetrate them,” Obama said.

The delivery of these complexes have been pending for six years, Obama noted, stressing that “In fact, the Russians stopped it at my request.

“My goal is not to resolve conflicts and tensions in the [Middle East] region through more war,” he said.

“My goal is to make sure we can negotiate a deal we know we can verify that ensures Israel is safe and ensures our neighbors like Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf countries are safe and that there is not a nuclear arms race in the region,” Obama told MSNBC.

Last week Obama downplayed the significance of S-300s being supplied to Iran.

“I’m frankly surprised that it [the ban on S-300 deliveries to Iran] held this long, given that they [Russians] were not prohibited by [UN Security Council] sanctions from selling these defensive weapons,”Obama said on Friday at a news conference in the White House.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed “grave concerns” at the S-300 delivery to Iran and phoned Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the issue.

A statement released by the Kremlin noted that Putin “gave a detailed explanation of the logic behind Russia’s decision…emphasizing the fact that the tactical and technical specifications of the S-300 system make it a purely defensive weapon; therefore, it would not pose any threat to the security of Israel or other countries in the Middle East.”


"With the progress of the Iranian nuclear track - and that is obviously positive - we do not see any reason to continue to keep the ban (on the delivery of the S-300) unilaterally," Putin said as cited by Reuters.

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