The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff recommends maintaining pressure on the non-nuclear sanctions to curb the Iranian regime’s weapons trading, its missile proliferation, its funding of surrogates and proxy forces, its cyberattacks and its maritime mines.
Time and the Iranian regime behavior will determine whether the Iran nuclear pact has achieved its intended objective, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey said on Friday.
According to a report published in U.S. Department of Defense website, speaking with reporters traveling with him, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey said the U.S. will carefully watch how the Iranian regime uses the additional revenue it will gain from the agreement.
“There’s every reason to believe that the majority of it will be used to fix their economy that suffered under the sanctions,” he said. “But I also am alert to the possibility that some if it could be used to support the other malign activities.”
The general said he will watch Iranian capabilities and the ways they use them, noting that while the agreement deals with Iran’s nuclear ambitions, it does not cover other malign activities the country is involved in around the region.
The report added: “Dempsey recommends maintaining pressure on the non-nuclear sanctions to curb the Iranian regime’s weapons trading, its missile proliferation, its funding of surrogates and proxy forces, its cyberattacks and its maritime mines.”
“To me, it’s about time and Iranian behavior,” Dempsey stressed. “I think it is a little bit premature for me to be convinced that it will have a moderating effect or it will not.”
