Iran has filed a lawsuit against Russia in an international court for non-supply of defensive S-300 anti-air missile complexes, in order to give Moscow a solid juridical precedent to force it to deliver the weapons according to the contract, according to RT, TV network based in Russia. Iranian ambassador in Russia Seyed Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi announced the legal action.
"We consider the S-300 complex as not falling under the UN Security Council resolution, therefore we are suing Russia to give it this legal cause," ambassador was quoted as telling journalists at a press-conference in Moscow. The UN resolution 1929 dated to June 2010, the fourth of its kind, restricts supply to Tehran of all conventional weapons, including missiles and missile systems, tanks, assault helicopters, fighter jets and warships. Technical and financial help to obtain spare parts is also forbidden. Russia complied with the resolution when President Dmitry Medvedev signing a special decree in September 2010, freezing the delivery of S-300 to Iran, according to RT.
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