Iran Project:

 “Iran’s continued missile testing must be a U.S. concern,” wrote a group of 18 former senior national security experts in a brief statement by The Iran Project released today. The group cautioned, however, that “we should not exaggerate the threat that testing presents to the security of the U.S. and its regional partners.”

Signers of the statement include former U.S. Ambassadors to Israel Thomas R. Pickering, James B. Cunningham, Daniel Kurtzer and Edward S. Walker; retired Admiral Eric Olson, former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command; Richard Lugar, former U.S. Senator and Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and former U.S. Representative Lee H. Hamilton, Chair of the 9/11 Commission Report.

The national security leaders argue that "without nuclear warheads, Iran’s missiles do not represent a grave threat and Iran is prevented by the JCPOA from acquiring a nuclear warhead capability for at least 15 years” and note that “the UNSC has not ruled Iran’s recent missile testing a violation of UN Resolutions." They call upon the U.S. to “impede Iran’s missile development by targeting any new legislation exclusively on closing gaps in sanctions directly relevant to the missile program” and to “preserve the JCPOA, which remains the most effective means of denying Iran nuclear weapons.”...

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