Russia will start Thursday the delivery of S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran, according to Sputnik News Agency. 

Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan was on an official visit to Moscow over the past two days. He held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu as well as Russian presidential aide Vladimir Kozhin and Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin.

During the visit, a number of issues were discussed, including global security, the war on terrorism, the situation in Syria and in the Middle East as well as military and technical cooperation between Moscow and Tehran.

Iran has traditionally been a major buyer of Russian-made weapons. Moscow and Tehran avidly cooperated in the military-technical field after the Iranian revolution and until the introduction of anti-Iranian sanctions.

Source: MENA