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The Russian ‘Fagot’ missiles are a second-generation tube-launched wire-guided anti-tank missile system designed during the Soviet Union days. AlArabiya.net, 22 January 2017  - Ukraine has announced that it has seized an airplane destined for Iran loaded with arms at Kiev’s Zhulyany Airport. The plane was reported on Sunday carrying Russian-made anti-tank guided missiles. The Russian agency Interfax confirmed that the weapons were discovered by Ukraine’s border police in Kiev’s airport following a search of 17 containers that were not registered in the flight’s cargo manifest. A spokesman said that three containers were found to be storing the missiles – which are lightweight, infrared guided anti-tank missiles – while the remaining storage boxes contained airplane spare parts. During an investigation, the airliner’s crew members – whose origin of either Iranian or Ukrainian has yet to be confirmed – denied knowledge of the weapons shipment. The shipment was later confis...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a news conference at U.N. Headquarters in New Yo   Beirut, ASHARQ AL-AWSAT, DEC. 28, 2016  - Optimism diminished over the success of a Russian-Iranian conference over the Syrian peace process that is scheduled for mid-January in Astana. Well-informed Turkish sources told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that the Iranian leadership was imposing vetoes on its possible representatives to the conference. Meanwhile, Iranian Defense Minister  Hossein Dehghan  said that Iran would never coordinate with the United States on the Syrian issue because the U.S.-led coalition “has no real intentions” to fight against ISIS terrorists either in Iraq or in , “We have never coordinated our actions with the Americans. We will never cooperate with them [on Syria],” Dehghan said in an interview with RT television. According to the minister, the U.S.-led coalition “has no real intentions” to fight against ISIS terrorists either in Iraq or...