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Russian Firm Got No-Bid Pentagon Contract After Selling Arms to Iran

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August 31, 2011 @ 12:00 am

For two years, the United States regarded Rosoboronexport, Russia’s official weapons exporter, as an international pariah for selling arms to Iran and Syria. Then, in 2010, the U.S. suddenly lifted sanctions against it. By June of this year, the reversal was complete: the Pentagon awarded the company a no-bid contract worth upwards of $1 billion.

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