Zionist entity’s Justice Minister Tzipi Livni was due in Moscow on Tuesday for talks over Russia’s plans to supply S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
Zionist entity’s Justice Minister Tzipi Livni was due in Moscow on Tuesday for talks over Russia's plans to supply S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
During the visit, Livni was to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a bid to convince Moscow not to go through with the promised delivery, according to the army radio.
Livni's spokeswoman confirmed she was to meet with Lavrov in Moscow but denied it was in connection with the S-300 system.
The S-300 batteries are advanced ground-to-air weapons that can take out aircraft or guided missiles. The weapon could theoretically shoot down Israeli jets in the region or complicate any Western efforts to impose a no-fly zone over war-torn Syria, or to stage any intervention to take out chemical weapons.
The Zionist entity fears such delivery and warned it could take military action if it went ahead. "The deliveries have not taken place, and I hope they do not. But if, by misfortune, they arrive in Syria, we will know what to do," Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon warned in May in a thinly-veiled allusion to a strike.
Writing in the top-selling Yediot Aharonot, commentator Alex Fishman said Israel was "tensely awaiting" the delivery of a first batch of the S-300 missiles which were likely to arrive in Syria "in the next few weeks" accompanied by a delegation of Russian experts who would train the Syrians in how to use the system.
"Israel is now bracing for a last diplomatic effort, together with the Americans, in an attempt either to postpone or cancel the deal," he said, noting that the Russian deal was financial rather than political in nature.