MOSCOW. (Nikita Petrov for RIA Novosti)...
Iran. This is ridiculous, because Iran does not have and for a long time will not have missiles capable of reaching Europe and America.Other Russian officials, including General Yuri Baluyevsky, then chief of Russia's General Staff and now on the staff of the Russian Security Council, and Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak, former deputy foreign minister of Russia, have also expressed their opinions about threats to Russia's counterstrike potential.
Baluyevsky said at a briefing in the Russian Information and News Agency RIA Novosti last November that the United States would not be satisfied with the deployment of missile defense elements in Poland and the Czech Republic, and would press for more sites for its ballistic missile defense system.
He was proved right on the very day Lavrov visited Warsaw. The U.S. Senate ruled that $89 million be allocated to "the activation and deployment of the AN/TPY-2 forward-based X-band radar [the
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