The Iran nuclear deal with Iran will not result in any lessening of pressure on Tehran over its support for terrorism and its destabilizing influence in the region, British Prime Minister David Cameron insisted as he sought to reassure Persian Gulf allies.
According to a report by Press Association, Mr Cameron said the UK and international allies who struck an agreement to restrict the Iranian regime’s nuclear program to non-weapon use “have no starry-eyed naivety” about the regime and would “remain as tough as we’ve always been”.
Asked about fears of Persian Gulf states, Mr Cameron told Al Arabiya television that UK will strengthen its defences in the Persian Gulf adding “We absolutely have no starry-eyed naivety about the Iranian regime.”
“We know about the causes they support, the terrorist groups they have funded, the problems they’ve contributed in the region, and we say: ‘step one: we’ve got them away from a nuclear weapon; step two is to now engage with them directly about these issues and seek changes in their behaviour on these issues too.”
“But we’re not aligning with Iran. We will remain as tough as we’ve always been about support for terrorism, about destabilisation of other countries, about support for the Syrian regime, which we think is an illegitimate regime; we think that Assad has been the recruiting sergeant for Isil, and we want to see an end to that regime, and we don’t change our views on those things at all.
“We stand with our important Gulf allies in those views.”
