The Iran-Russia contract on the supply of S-300 missile defense systems to Tehran will be implemented by March of 2017 (the end of the Iranian year), a senior Iranian commander announced on Sunday, according to the semiofficial Iranian Fars news agency.

"The supply of the S-300 missile defense system is moving on its natural course and the remaining parts will be supplied to Iran by the end of the current year," Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli was quoted as having said.


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