The Russian military aircraft involved in launching airstrikes from the Iranian Hamadan base against terrorist sites in Syria successfully accomplished the tasks they had set out to complete, Maj. The comments by Dehghan came after he chastised the parliament this weekend for asking questions about Russian Federation using the base. Irans minister of defense, Brig.
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Last week Russian Federation announced what it called an increase in cooperation with Iran.
Iran’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) is planning to start negotiations with Russian Federation over the acquisition of Sukhoi combat aircraft, Iranian Defense Minister, Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan said in an interview to an Iranian TV channel on August 22.
It was the first time a foreign power had used an Iranian base since World War Two.
“Naturally the Russians would like to show that they are a superpower and an influential country and that they are present in all the security developments of the region and the world”, he said. But while Britain withdrew, Russian Federation refused to leave, sparking the first worldwide rebuke by the nascent United Nations Security Council in 1946. Dehghan “should have observed the ethics of governing”, Larijani said. After some delay, Russian Federation supplied Iran with its S-300 missile air defense system, evidence of a growing partnership that is testing USA influence in the Middle East. Dehghan said that to make up for the delay, Russian Federation had suggested providing Iran with its advanced S-400, but that Tehran was not interested as it is working to advance its own home-made defense system.
Iran revokes its permission for Russian planes to use the air base because of “ungentlemanly” behavior of Kremlin.
Russian Federation has suddenly stopped using an Iranian airbase to launch airstrikes in Syria.
The Tu-22M3 long-range strategic bombers and Sukhoi Su-34 strike fighters, taking off from Iran’s Hamadan Airbase, have hit the positions of the IS and Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist groups in Syrian provinces of Aleppo, Deir ez-Zor and Idlib, a Russian Defense Ministry message read August 16.
“(Russia) needed to refuel in an area closer to the operation.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied that Moscow could be in breach of a ban on supply or transfer of warplanes to Iran without prior approval of the UN Security Council.
“The issue of purchasing the fighters has been raised and we have not heard any negative answer”, he said.
The premier also said the formation of a government that would represent all Syrians as it was before the civil war was key to the future of Syria.
Meanwhile, Turkish artillery on Monday attacked a USA -backed Syrian Kurdish militia as well as Islamic State group positions across the border in Syria, according to Turkish media reports.
The state-run Anadolu Agency says Turkey has increased security measures at its border opposite the Islamic State-held town of Jarablus, deploying tanks and armored personnel carriers.
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Ankara is concerned about the growing power of US -backed Syrian Kurdish forces, who are linked to Kurdish groups waging an insurgency in southeastern Turkey.
