Baghdad’s ambassador to Moscow on Wednesday denied reports that Iraq could have imported any of Russia's S-300 systems to strengthen its battered air defenses. Such deals "are ruled out under conditions of a blockade," Ambassador Abbas Khalaf told the Izvestia daily.
Additionally, the ambassador dismissed claims that Iraq might use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons if attacked, saying that "Iraq has never had weapons of mass destruction." "From 1991 to 1998, some 3,500 international inspectors worked in Iraq, searched for weapons, visited nearly 4,000 sites of what they called suspicious facilities, and found nothing," he said. (Albawaba.com)
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