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Iranian teams train on S-300 interceptors at Russian bases 
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 19, 2010, 5:39 PM (GMT+02:00) 
Tags:  Iran nuclear   Russian S-300  

S-300 effective against air or missile attack

While backing the US on watered-down UN Security Council sanctions for Iran, DEBKAfile's military sources report Iranian Revolutionary Guards crews are surreptitiously training at Russian bases for operating advanced S-300 interceptor-missile systems, which are capable of fending off a potential attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.

After its softening by Russia and China, the new sanctions motion does not ban the consignment of this weapon to Iran.

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Sanctions against Iran are a dead letter (Updated)
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis
May 18, 2010, 10:12 AM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:  Brazilian-Turkish diplomacy   US-Iran 

Ahmadinejad high on victory

By fleet diplomatic footwork, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton submitted a sanctions package to the UN Security Council Tuesday, May 19, that Western diplomats admitted contained few new measures but gained the reluctant assent of Russia and China, as well as the UK, France and Germany.
To gain this endorsement, the original draft was heavily diluted out of a necessity to salvage the last vestige of the US administration's sanctions strategy from the assault mounted by a Brazilian-Iranian enriched uranium deal.

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Brazil, Turkey bolster Iran's nuclear drive, disarm US sanctions threat
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis
May 17, 2010, 1:42 PM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:  Brazilian-Turkish diplomacy   Iran nuclear 

Celebration in Tehran

Iran is rid of harassment over its nuclear program thanks to the deal clinched in TehranMonday, May 17 by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva "Lula" and Turkish prime minister Reccep Erdogan, whereby Iran will export some 1,200 kilograms of its lightly enriched uranium to Turkey for reprocessing to 19.5 percent grade. 
DEBKAfile's military sources: The deal, backed by Moscow, is a fraudulent piece of diplomatic trickery - firstly, Turkey has no enrichment facilities.

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