TEHRAN – Iran itself will manufacture S-300 missiles if Russia reneges on the deal to deliver the missiles to Tehran, top legislator Alaeddin Boroujerdi said on Monday.

However, Boroujerdi said, “In my opinion, Russians ultimately will deliver the missile system to Tehran because Iran recognizes Russia as a country in the region, which has fulfilled its promises so far,”
Boroujerdi, the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee chairman, made these remarks in an interview with the Mehr News Agency.
Russia signed a contract in 2007 to sell the S-300 missile system, but it has not delivered the missiles so far.
The S-300 system, which can track targets and fire at aircraft 120 kilometers (75 miles) away, features high jamming immunity and is able to simultaneously engage up to 100 targets.
The truck-mounted S-300PMU1, known in the West as the SA-20, can shoot down cruise missiles and aircraft. It can fire at targets up to 150 km (90 miles) away and travel at more than two km per second.
A Russian official said last month that the technical problems are the reason behind the delay in the delivery of the system to Iran. However, Moscow delivered a sizeable number of the missiles to China earlier this month.
Russia is under intense pressure from Israel and the U.S. to scrap the deal with Iran.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced in late February that Moscow will supply the air defense missiles to Iran after some 'technical' issues are sorted out.
""There is a contract and there are few things which need to be sorted out before fulfilling it,"" Lavrov said