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Obama: US could â€˜penetrateâ€™ Iran S-300 defense system

22 April 2015 10:18 (UTC +04:00)

“Even if they’ve got some air defense systems, if we had to, we could penetrate them,” Obama told MSNBC late Tuesday, APA reports.

The US president urged to keep things “in perspective,” noting that the US defense budget was “somewhere just a little under $600 billion. Theirs is a little over $17 billion.”

The US president also issued a warning to Iran against delivering weapons to Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen, said to be armed and trained by the Revolutionary Guards. “What we need to do is bring all the parties together and find a political arrangement,” he said. “It is not solved by having another proxy war in Yemen. We’ve indicated to the Iranians that they need to be part of the solution, and not part of the problem.”