{"id":12411,"date":"2012-11-11T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/iran-a-world\/12411-iraq-cancels-42-bln-russian-arms-deal-cites-graft"},"modified":"2023-01-14T05:41:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T04:41:34","slug":"iraq-cancels-42-bln-russian-arms-deal-cites-graft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-a-world\/iraq-cancels-42-bln-russian-arms-deal-cites-graft\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq cancels $4.2 bln Russian arms deal, cites graft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"maleki-4\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-39090\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/maleki-4.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" style=\"float: left;margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px\" \/>By Reuters<br \/>Baghdad<\/strong><br \/>The Iraqi government said on Saturday it had cancelled a $4.2 billion deal to buy military jets, helicopters and missiles from Russia, citing possible corruption in the contract.<br \/>In a confusing exchange, the announcement by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki\u2019s office was immediately contradicted by the acting defense minister who denied the corruption charges, claiming the deals were still valid.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. military hardware remains key for Iraq\u2019s armed forces, but security analysts said the Russian deal had appeared to open a way for Maliki to resist U.S. political pressure by diversifying his arms suppliers.<br \/>The Russian deal was agreed just as Washington warned the Iraqi Shi&#8217;ite leader to curb Iranian flights ferrying weapons through Iraqi airspace to aid Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his fight against a revolt there.<br \/>Maliki\u2019s media adviser Ali al-Moussawi said the decision to renegotiate the agreements was taken after the prime minister was informed about possible wrongdoing in the contract.<br \/>\u201cOur need for weapons still stands so we will renegotiate new contracts,\u201d Moussawi said. \u201cThis is a precautionary measure because of suspected corruption.\u201d<br \/>But acting Defense Minister Sadoon al-Dulaimi, who negotiated with the Russians, dismissed the corruption charges.<br \/>\u201cWe have not transferred even one dinar, there was no agent, no contract was signed. These were just technical and financial offers,\u201d he told reporters in Baghdad.<br \/>Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport declined to comment. Russia\u2019s Interfax news agency also said the Russian embassy in Iraq said it had not been informed the deal had been scrapped.<br \/>Russia\u2019s daily Kommersant said the contract, announced in October, envisaged the delivery of 42 combined short- to medium- range surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery weapon systems Pantsir-S1.<br \/>It also said Russia could be selling Baghdad MiG-29M\/M2 aircraft as well armored vehicles. Previous news reports had detailed the sale of attack helicopters.<br \/>News of the cancellation of the deal came at a time when Russia has been entangled in a series of corruption scandals involving its defense ministry and its space ministry.<br \/>On Friday, President Vladimir Putin fired the chief of his military staff, days after sacking the defence minister over a corruption and sleaze scandal.<br \/>The deals would have made Russia the second largest military supplier to Iraq after the United States, which has sold Baghdad billions of dollars in arms including F-16 fighters and tanks since the 2003 invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.<br \/>Maliki\u2019s Russian agreements fit into the wider context of his juggling interests over the war against Syria&#8217;s Assad. Iran and Russia support Assad, while the rebels fighting him are backed by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Western powers.<br \/>Maliki relies on the United States for military aid, but also depends on Iranian influence at home to keep control over Shi&#8217;ite allies in his fragile cross-sectarian government among Shi&#8217;ites, Sunnis and Kurds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ReutersBaghdadThe Iraqi government said on Saturday it had cancelled a $4.2 billion deal to buy military jets, helicopters and missiles from Russia, citing possible corruption in the contract.In a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-12411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-iran-a-world","7":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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