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アメリカが湾岸諸国との間に武器ビジネスを成立させたとの発表（（http://www.asyura2.com/07/war94/msg/490.html）
を受けて、イランはロシアから Su-30戦闘機を、250機、購入するらしいとの記事が、7月30日付の「エルサレム・ポスト」に掲載されていたが、このことについて「Defense News」が解説している。
この戦闘機は、中国、インドをはじめとするその他の国にすでに輸出されている。
イラン外務省のスポークスマンは、ウェブ・サイトでアメリカの湾岸諸国への武器ビジネスについて触れ、「アメリカは湾岸諸国に武器を売りつけておいて、何がこの地域の安定と安全保障のためだというのか」と述べている。
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「イスラエル・ポスト」だから、"戦争を煽って金儲け”という構図の一端を担っての、”プロパガンダ”記事かもしれないが、こういう話もあるということで。
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=2934088&C=mideast
07/30/07 09:21Print this story Reports: Iran May Buy 250 Jets From Russia
By PHILIP EWING
Iran is in negotiations with Russia to buy 250 state-of-the-art fighter jets, an Israeli newspaper reported, in a pointed response to a new American bid to sell billions of dollars’ worth of weapons to potential Iranian adversaries in the Middle East.
The English-language Jerusalem Post of Israel reported Monday that top Israeli defense officials are investigating the potential Iran-Russia deal, in which Iran would pay $1 billion for about a dozen squadrons’ worth of Sukhoi Su-30 “Flanker” fighter-bombers. As a part of the deal, Iran would also buy aerial tanker planes that could extend the fighters’ range.
Russia has already supplied Iran with modern surface-to-air missile defense systems, intended to protect nuclear facilities from potential Israeli or American airstrikes. Russian officials have defended those sales, saying they are within their rights to sell any nation weapons for its self-defense.
The Jerusalem Post report appeared two days after the American press reported that President Bush wants to ramp up American arms sales to several Middle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt, in a deal that could be worth as much as $20 billion, in the hopes of limiting the expansion of Iranian influence in the Middle East.
An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman decried the Americans weapons deal Monday on a state-sponsored Web site.
“What the Persian Gulf region needs is stability and security,” said Mohammad-Ali Hosseini. “Americans have been trying to disturb it by selling weapons to the region.”
The two-seat Su-30 is a popular Russian export fighter. Models are already in service with the Chinese, Indian and other militaries, and there are variants deigned for naval aviation. The fighter can carry a maximum weapons payload of more than 17,000 pounds, according to Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft, and has a range, on internal fuel, of about 1,620 nautical miles, but that can be extended to 2,805 nautical miles with one midair refuel.
The Su-30’s listed performance capabilities are comparable to or better than the three primary American fighters deployed to Iraq: the Navy’s carrier-based F/A-18 Hornet and the Air Force’s F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon.
If it acquired the Flankers, Iran would enjoy a quantum leap forward in its air power capability. Iran has invested much of its resources in surface-to-air missile defenses, but its fighter fleet now consists of decades-old American exported F-14 Tomcats and F-4 Phantoms, and an unknown hodgepodge of 1970s-era Russian fighters, including Su-25 “Frogfoots,” and newer models, including the MiG-27 “Flogger.”
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