Russia expects Iran to drop S-300 lawsuit

MOSCOW, April 14. /TASS/. Moscow expects Tehran to withdraw its lawsuit over supplies of S-300 air defense systems, Yevgeny Lukyanov, a deputy chief of the Russian Security Council, said on Tuesday. He said that Russia "fulfills its obligation that it failed to fulfill earlier," he said. Iran filed a $4 billion lawsuit against Russia's state-run arms export company Rosoboronexport in an international arbitration court in Geneva in April 2011 after Russia suspended the 2007 contract on the supplies of S-300 missile systems to Iran. On Monday President Vladimir Putin ordered lifting the ban on the S-300 supplies to the Islamic Republic. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday the Kremlin could name no specific dates when Russia may begin S-300 deliveries to Iran.