An Iranian lawmaker said that the Russian-made S-300 missile defense system was “inactive” during a recent Israeli missile attack on Damascus. Heshmatollah Falahat-Pisheh, head of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy commission said that S-300, which was delivered to Syria, was “inactive”, according to the Islamic Republic News ...
Russia on Thursday slammed foreign interference in Venezuela and denounced the opposition’s “usurpation of power”, calling President Nicolas Maduro the Latin American country’s legitimate leader. In a strongly-worded statement backing Maduro, the Russian foreign ministry warned that international support for opposition leader Juan Guaido, who declared himself interim president Wednesday, ...