News - Iran News Iran receives the missile part of S-300 defense system from Russia

Russian military vehicles move along a central street during a rehearsal for a military parade in Moscow

Russia has delivered the missile part of S-300 surface-to-air defense system to Iran, an official Iranian news agency reported on Monday, moving to finish the delivery of all divisions of the system to Tehran by the end of this year.
'The first shipment of missiles of S-300 missile system has recently entered Iran that shows Iran's determination to equip its air defense circle with this system,' news agency, which is close to the Revolutionary Guards, reported.
Russia's agreement to provide Iran with S-300 has sparked concern in Israel, whose government Iran has said it aims to destroy.
Russia says it canceled a contract to deliver S-300s to Iran in 2010 under pressure from the West.
President Vladimir Putin lifted that self-imposed ban in April 2015, after an interim agreement that paved the way for July's full nuclear deal.
Russia delivered the first parts of S-300, the missile tubes and radar equipment, to Iran in April.
Source: Reuters, 18 July 2018

Russiranian Plot for establishing an independent Alawite state in Syria

  Asaad al-Zoubi, head of the Syrian opposition delegation of High Negotiations Committee (HNC) in Geneva, revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper the existence of a plot aimed at establishing an independent Alawite state which chunked out from Syrian grounds and will go by “Handy Syria”.
In his phone interview on Saturday, al-Zoubi confirmed that based on a Russian plan, which is getting Russian-Iranian collaboration, mayhem will be sparked at the core of Syria in the upcoming few hours.
The campaign will launch on the premise of annihilating all signs of revolution and will set the foundations to Syria shifting to federalism.
Alawites, also known as Alawis, are part of a branch of Islam, which is centered in Syria.





As for Russian intentions on establishing a “Handy Syria”, al-Zoubi said that the Russians are looking to establish a state for themselves that encompasses the landscape between Afrin- a district as well as a city in northern Syria and a part of the Aleppo governorate- all the way to al-Khamsi area, in order to isolate and besiege the southern side of Turkish borders.
The takeover will inhibit supply delivered to the Free Syrian Army (FSA). Not to mention that it will also cut off the Syrian people residing in those particular areas. The eventual aim of the plot is to provide Alawites a northern state. However, a part of the western side of Aleppo is expected to be handed down to the Kurds.
Kurds in Syria are people born in or residing in Syria and who are of Kurdish origin. The Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria, comprising less than 10% of the country’s population.