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Byline: Owen Matthews and Kevin Peraino, Mark Hosenball, Ethan Porter, Sean Smith, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Elise Soukup,

Iran: Bolstering Its Defenses

What is Iran up to? Russia's giant arms-export company Rosvooruzheniye announced last week that Tehran has agreed to spend $1 billion on 30 Tor M1 air-defense missile systems, capable of protecting a target from up to 48 incoming planes or projectiles to a range of six kilometers. Iran currently has no comprehensive air defenses, leaving its cities and dozens of nuclear-research installations vulnerable to air raids. The Tor M1 purchase is just the first stage of a more comprehensive Iranian purchasing ...

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