{"id":1726,"date":"2019-06-21T04:29:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2019-06-21T04:29:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:29:30","slug":"russia-rejected-an-iranian-request-to-buy-s-400-missile-defense-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/russia-rejected-an-iranian-request-to-buy-s-400-missile-defense-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia rejected an Iranian request to buy S 400 missile defense systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Russia&nbsp;<\/strong>has rejected an Iranian request to buy<strong>&nbsp;S-400 missile defense systems,<\/strong>concerned\nthat the sale would stoke more tension in the Middle East.&nbsp;<br>\nThe request was rebuffed by&nbsp;<strong>President Vladimir Putin<\/strong>on\ncondition of anonymity because they\u2019re not authorized to discuss the\nmatter.&nbsp;<strong>Iranian\nForeign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif<\/strong>&nbsp;visited Moscow May\n7. Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry<strong>&nbsp;didn\u2019t\nreply to a request&nbsp;<\/strong>for comment, and Iranian officials\ncouldn\u2019t be reached for a response.<br><br><strong>US\nSanctions:<\/strong><br>\nThe US recently&nbsp;<strong>imposed more anti-Iranian sanctions<\/strong>&nbsp;and\nsent an aircraft carrier and bombers to the Gulf over what it described as a\nthreat of attack from Iran on its forces and allies.<br>\nRussia\u2019s reaction to Iran\u2019s request reflects the\ndelicate balance of power in the Persian Gulf, where a showdown is brewing\nbetween the Islamic Republic on one hand, and the U.S. and its Gulf Arab allies\non the other. President Donald Trump agreed to send more U.S. troops to the\nregion after the U.S. blamed Iran for attacks on Saudi oil installations as\nwell as four ships.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&nbsp;has rejected an Iranian request to buy&nbsp;S-400 missile defense systems,concerned that the sale would stoke more tension in the Middle East.&nbsp; The request was rebuffed by&nbsp;President Vladimir Putinon condition of anonymity because they\u2019re not authorized to discuss the matter.&nbsp;Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif&nbsp;visited Moscow May 7. Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry&nbsp;didn\u2019t reply to a request&nbsp;for comment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1728,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions\/1728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}