US expert says Iran deal is ‘flawed’

The former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Gen. Michael Flynn, says that the nuclear deal taking shape with Iran is full of flaws and there is no doubt Tehran is planning to build a nuclear weapon. According to Flynn, Iranian control of international monitors’ access to nuclear site and the Iranian demand that inspections be coordinated in advance makes monitoring the facilities impossible.

Israel Radio quotes Flynn as saying Iran’s pronouncements on its intention to destroy Israel are “very real” and added that if sanctions are removed they will not be reinstated.

“Once sanctions are lifted, the genie is out of the bottle; we’re going to see proliferation in the region because we’ve looked at this too narrowly,” he says.

Flynn and several other experts appeared before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.

David Cooper, of the US Naval War College, said that the links between medium and long-range missiles and a nuclear payload are clear.

“At this moment, Iran is the only country in the world that says it has no nuclear weapons ambitions and yet has fielded an intermediate-range ballistic missile,” Cooper said.