The Army’s top general says it was never his military advice that the United States either make a nuclear deal with Iran or face the prospect of war — a haunting choice President Barack Obama has claimed Congress now faces in its scrutiny of a pact with Tehran.
Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate hearing Wednesday on the deal that he never presented Obama with an either-or choice for a nuclear proliferation agreement, the National Review reports.
“At no time did that come up in our conversation nor did I make that comment,” Dempsey told Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst. “I can tell you that we have a range of options and I always present them.”
But Sec. of State John Kerry told lawmakers Obama wasn’t misrepresenting the situation, the Review reports.
“It’s not a choice the president wants to make, but it’s the inevitable consequence of them moving to assert what they believe is their right in the furtherance of their program,” he insisted, the Review reports.
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