MOSCOW, September 21 (RIA Novosti) - Iran"s...
the carrier rocket that took the first Iranian satellite into space is reequipped, the range could be increased to 4,000 km (2,485 miles)," he said.He stressed that the change in the U.S. stance on missile defense in Europe is justified. "We don"t know what Iran is going to use," he said.
A former top Russian general said earlier Monday that Russia and the United States could take up the issue of deploying a joint missile defense system in Europe if Iran develops long-range ballistic missiles.
U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Thursday that Washington would not deploy a radar system in the Czech Republic and a missile base in Poland due to a reassessment of the threat from Iran. Moscow fiercely opposed the Europe-based missile defense plans as a national security threat.
"Russia and the U.S. could jointly turn to this topic again in the future if Iran gets such a weapon (long-range ballistic missile), but this won"t happen until at least
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