Russia will fulfill missile contract with Iran

"The contract to deliver the short-range TOR-M1 air defense system has been signed, to fulfill it will take some time," the defense chief, Sergei Ivanov, told journalists after a meeting with his German counterpart Franz Josef Jung. "Except in the case of some major event, it (the contract) will certainly be fulfilled," Ivanov said, adding that the missiles would not be used by terrorist groups.

"The technical characteristics of the system prohibit it from being used for terrorist activities," he said.

Russia was "far from being the main arms supplier in the Near East and Middle East region," he added.

At the end of last year, the Russian press announced that Iran had signed a contract with Moscow to buy 29 TOR-M1 air defense systems in a deal valued at 700 million dollars (546 million euros).

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