TEHRAN (Tasnim) Ali Akbar Velayati, an international adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, expressed the hope that Russia will deliver the S-300 missile defense system to Iran and also agree to sell Su-30 fighter jets to the country. Based on a contract signed between the two countries, Russia is required to provide Iran with S-300 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration said Thursday that a proposed Russian sale of fighter jets to Iran would violate a U.N. arms embargo on Tehran, setting up another standoff related to last year's nuclear negotiations. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said transferring the Sukhoi-30 jets, comparable to American F-15E fighter bombers,...

Iran plans to buy the Sukhoi Su-30SM fighters, the Mil Mi-8 and the Mil Mi-17 helicopters, as well as other weapons from Russia in an arms deal worth more than $8 billion, the Kommersant newspaper reported, citing unnamed sources. "Tehran has already sent a list of military hardware that Iranian Armed Forces would like to purchase from Moscow," ...