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| Pentagon Chief Says Iran Deal Stren |
| Pentagon Chief Says Iran Deal Strengthens US Military Option
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 4-September-2015
9:18:46 AM |
| US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter offered assurances Friday that the Iran nuclear deal will leave Washington with a "more effective" military option if that becomes necessary.
Carter defended the agreement in an opinion piece in USA Today, arguing it would lead to a more durable outcome.
But the Pentagon chief said the military option was still on the table and, if called for, such action would be "more effective" as a result of the agreement.
World powers and Iran struck the landmark deal in July after years of negotiations to address Western concerns that Tehran was developing a nuclear bomb.
"Its implementation will block the pathways Iran could take to build a nuclear bomb. That long-term outcome is more durable than one a military strike would bring about," Carter wrote.
"While I am responsible for that alternative and know that it would be effective at setting back Iran's nuclear program, it would do so with potentially serious second- and third-order repercussions, and the likely need to repeat attacks once Iran sought to rebuild its capability."
But Carter argued the deal also made the option of military action by the US against Iran stronger going forward.
"The military option is real today and, as secretary of defense, I will be sure that remains true well into the future," he wrote.
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