A Russian military expert questioned on...
With the delivery of Russian-made S-300 systems to Iran long overdue, Tehran has said it is capable of producing clones in the near future.
Speaking to Mehr News Agency on November 14, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of Iran"s parliamentary Foreign Policy and National Security Commission said "the Islamic Republic will be able to mass produce the system in the near future."
Vladimir Yevseyev, a senior research fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences World Economics and International Relations Institute, dismissed the claims as "misleading information."
"Iran is unable to build these complexes due to its serious technological lag. Nor is it likely to acquire such capability in the next five years," he said.
He also said Iran was unable to copy S-300s.
"There are suspicions that China made [S-300s], but China has an altogether different resource base, and China has had S-300 systems delivered [from Russia] in the first place."