{"id":11886,"date":"2013-05-28T23:41:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T18:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=11886"},"modified":"2013-05-28T23:41:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T18:41:28","slug":"russia-says-it-will-arm-syria-with-anti-aircraft-missiles-to-prevent-some-hotheads-from-intervening-in-the-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=11886","title":{"rendered":"Russia says it will arm Syria with anti-aircraft missiles to prevent &#8216;some hotheads&#8217; from intervening in the conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/r3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-11883\" alt=\"r3 (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/r3-1.jpg\" width=\"507\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/r3-1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/r3-1-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/r3-1-424x300.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a>Russia has refused to scrap plans to provide Syrian President Bashar Assad with high-powered missiles &#8211; claiming it will help deter &#8216;hotheads&#8217; intent on intervention in the two-year-old conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes as Russia accused the European Union allowed of &#8216;throwing fuel on the fire&#8217; by letting its own arms embargo on Syria expire.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and France had urged Moscow to refrain from sending high-precision S-300 missile systems to President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s government, which is battling a Western and Gulf Arab-backed insurgency.<\/p>\n<p>But Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov suggested the air defence system would be useful in deterring any intervention in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We think this delivery is a stabilising factor and that such steps in many ways restrain some hotheads from exploring scenarios in which this conflict could be given an international character with participation of outside forces,&#8217; he told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Russian officials have not disclosed whether S-300s have actually been sent to Syria and Ryabkov would not specify.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Ryabkov said the European Union&#8217;s failure to renew an arms embargo on Syria would undermine the chances for peace talks that Moscow and Washington are trying to organise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has refused to scrap plans to provide Syrian President Bashar Assad with high-powered missiles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}