<p>A top US military commander said he believed it would be “premature” to take military action against Iran in response to its nuclear programme in an interview to be aired on Sunday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also told CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” programme that economic sanctions have to be given a chance to work, and the United States and its allies should be better prepared for a military option.<br /><br />“I think it would be premature to exclusively decide that the time for a military option was upon us,” Dempsey said.<br /><br />“I think that the economic sanctions and the international cooperation that we’ve been able to gather around sanctions is beginning to have an effect,” he added. In recent weeks, there has been feverish speculation that Israel was getting closer to mounting a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, but Israel has denied reaching such a decision.<br /></p>
<p>A top US military commander said he believed it would be “premature” to take military action against Iran in response to its nuclear programme in an interview to be aired on Sunday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also told CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” programme that economic sanctions have to be given a chance to work, and the United States and its allies should be better prepared for a military option.<br /><br />“I think it would be premature to exclusively decide that the time for a military option was upon us,” Dempsey said.<br /><br />“I think that the economic sanctions and the international cooperation that we’ve been able to gather around sanctions is beginning to have an effect,” he added. In recent weeks, there has been feverish speculation that Israel was getting closer to mounting a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, but Israel has denied reaching such a decision.<br /></p>