Israel to Russia: Don't sell S-300 to Iran

Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak in a meeting with Russia's deputy foreign minister called on Moscow to not supply advanced missiles to Iran. Barak in his talks with Alexander Saltanov in al-Quds (Jerusalem) on Thursday urged Russia 'to avoid selling advanced anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran,' a senior defense official told AFP. Barak's comments come as Russia's state arms export service has declared that the country is not delivering its advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Iran. "Nothing is happening. There are no deliveries," Interfax news agency quoted Alexander Fomin, First Deputy Director of Russia's Federal Military and Technical Cooperation Service, as saying at an arms fair in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. However, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, Mahdi Safari, who was visiting Moscow on Wednesday, declared that the contract to buy Russia's S-300 advance missile system is still on track. "There are no problems with this [S-300] contract," RIA Novosti quoted Safari as saying.