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Russian DM Due in Tehran on Sunday
TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian Defense Minister General Sergei Shoigu will arrive in Tehran January 18 to discuss bilateral ties with his Iranian counterpart Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan, the Iranian Embassy in Moscow announced.

Russian Defense Minister to Visit Iran January 19 for Talks
MOSCOW, January 15 (Sputnik) – Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu will hold talks with his colleague in Iran on January 19, the Iranian Embassy’s press service told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
“According to our information, the minister will leave for Iran on Sunday evening, which means that talks with his Iranian colleagues and defense minister will be held on Monday,” the press service said.

Tehran hopes Russia will supply S-300 air defense systems to Iran this year — ambassador
MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/. Iran hopes that Russia will supply S-300 air defense systems this year, Iranian ambassador Mehdi Sanai told a news conference in Moscow on Tuesday.
"As far as S-300 is concerned, I have been asked this question many times. I do hope that our Russian friends will supply this defensive system to Iran this year to relieve me of the need to answer that question again in 2016," Sanai said.

Iran ready to train Iraqi officers in its military academies
TEHRAN, February, 9. /TASS/. Iran is ready to train Iraqi officers in its military academies, Iran’s News Agency IRNA reports.
The head of the elite Iranian Army’s Command and General Staff College (DAFOOS) brigadier general Hossein Valivand told the IRNA news agency that the academy is ready to admit Iraqi officers in order to undergo and improve military service. According to the general, the issue of training officers from the neighboring country was discussed during Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi’s visit to Tehran last December.

The IRNA news agency reminds that during the negotiations in Tehran al-Obeidi has urged Iran to provide the Iraqi army with strong support. Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan has responded to his counterpart that “Iran’s support for the Iraqi armed forces is part of the Islamic Republic’s defense and security strategies”. As far as training of Kurdish Peshmerga military forces in DAFOOS are concerned, the general Valivand highlights that “DAFOOS is an elite military academy and is ready to cooperate with armed forces of all friendly countries”.
“When our Defense Ministry signs a security defense contract with a country, then we can train officers of that country or send staff for training” – the head of DAFOOS claims. He adds that officers from Oman, Pakistan and Syria are currently taking training courses in DAFOOS, while Iranian officers are being trained in China, Pakistan and Oman.

Oops: NSA Afraid US Accidentally Aided Iran’s Cyberattack Capabilities
Forget the bomb. US officials have been increasingly worried about Iran’s cyberattack capabilities, and a new Snowden document confirms their worst fears. Iran is capable, and most of what they’ve learned they’ve learned from US attacks.
In the early days of his administration, President Obama was faced with a difficult decision. Young, idealistic, having won the election on promises of ending the wars in the Middle East and transparency, he had to decide whether he would continue a Bush-era cyberattack operation code-named Olympic Games.

Obama greenlighted the project, and the computer worm known as Stuxnet crawled its way into the servers of Iranian nuclear facilities. According to the New York Times, the president “repeatedly expressed concerns that any American acknowledgement that it was using cyberweapons…could enable other countries, terrorists, or hackers to justify their own attacks.”

Russia offers Iran to replace S-300 with Antey-2500 — Rostec head
ABU DHABI, February 23. /TASS/. Russia has offered Iran its latest Antey-2500 anti-ballistic missiles to replace less powerful S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems, the head of Russian state conglomerate Rostec said on Monday, adding that Tehran was now considering the offer.