After the collapse of the defense systems, Iran is blamed: "Russia is treacherous"

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-31 04:50:53 | Updated at 2024-10-31 07:19:08 2 hours ago

After the collapse of the defense systems, Iran is blamed: "Russia is treacherous"
Maariv ^ | 10.30.24 | Peled Arbeli

Posted on 10/30/2024 9:47:52 PM PDT by Words Matter

Beni Sabti, an expert on Iranian affairs, on the heavy price Tehran is paying: "They are considering doubling the defense budget by 200%. This is suicide, just like the Soviet Union did."

Beni Sabti, a researcher on Iranian affairs at the Institute for National Security Studies, spoke to "Maariv" about the turmoil Iran has been caught in recently. "The Iranians are starting to think a little differently about the prices of this war." According to him, "the government submitted a proposal that increases the defense budget by 200%. It's like - the more impoverished they are, the more they invest in irons that will burn on the way and get nowhere. This is suicide, this Also what happened to the Soviet Union, it invested so much in its military system, that in the end it was one of the things that broke it up.

Later, Sabti told about an interesting trend in relations between Iran and Russia - the two giants leading the axis of evil. "A kind of criticism began against the Russians that their defense system, the S-300, did not function and was even neutralized. They are starting to say that they are treacherous, that they do not know how to stand up to Western Israeli technology. Why did we wait 15 years to receive this system? And it does not function on the day of The need." Even so, the Iranian public does not like the Russians, but this time the claims come from members of parliament, and from commentators who dare to say things they did not dare to do so. But these are all kinds of juniors. It is precisely the most seniors who do not argue, but are silent. It seems they are doing it from a place of fear, they don't know what awaits them next time from Israel, maybe from the United States. So they economize their steps in all that is implied, also in the financial sense but not only."

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1 posted on 10/30/2024 9:47:52 PM PDT by Words Matter

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