Missiles and Loopholes
For the past couple of days, the conservative media has really sinking its teeth into the latest draft U.N. resolution on Iran sanctions, which apparently contains a loophole allowing for the sale of S-300 missiles by Moscow to Tehran. The Washington Times pointed out that in the draft section discussing which missiles to be banned, there was a provision allowing for ground-to-air missiles to be provided, but that member nations only need to show “vigilance and restraint” with regard to weapons delivery to Iran. Mikhail Margelov and others in the Duma seemed pleased that sanctions wouldn’t affect Russian business with Iran. Later on a Fox blogger went to bat, followed by a posting from Heritage.org which carried the very detailed headline “If the S-300 Sale is Allowed, Obama’s “Reset” Policy Has Failed.“