Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey and Secretary of Defense Ash Carter. Yuri Gripas / Reuters
Politico: How the Pentagon got its way in Iran deal
Restrictions on advanced military weapons sales to Iran will remain in place for five to eight years
The Pentagon exerted key influence over one major sticking point in the final hours of the nuclear negotiations with Iran, according to current and former U.S. officials and diplomats: when to relax the international embargo on advanced military weapons to the Islamic Republic.
As the talks entered the final stages, U.S. negotiators were under enormous pressure — from Russia and China, as well as some European allies — to immediately lift the United Nations embargo that was put in place in 2010 as punishment for Iran’s nuclear weapons development, they said. Iranian diplomats, meanwhile, were insisting on immediate relief in exchange for forgoing the nation’s nuclear ambitions.
WNU Editor: If the Pentagon got what they wanted .... why are they worried? .... Nuclear Deal's End to Iran Arms Embargo Worries Pentagon, Analysts (Military.com).
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