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April 15, 2015

Russia Considers Selling Iran Powerful Missiles; the U.S. Shrugs

American “red lines” aren’t what they used to be.

In 2010, Russia suspended the delivery of the S-300 missile system to Iran—an achievement hailed as a great diplomatic success for the Obama administration’s policy of “resetting” America-Russia relations. (Tehran would have found the missiles particularly useful in impeding American or Israeli airstrikes.) Now Russia has announced that it will consider selling Iran the missiles after all. Elliott Abrams writes:

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