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Middle East Leaders Praise "Maximum Pressure" Campaign on Iran
(CNBC) Abigail Ng - "We are still in favor of maximum pressure [on Iran] - absolutely," said Omar Ghobash, the UAE's assistant minister for culture and public diplomacy. "Was it successful? We think it will succeed," he told CNBC on Sunday. "We thought that the maximum pressure policy with regard to Iran was very productive," said Israel's Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz. "Iran was weakening, Iran [had] to reduce its military-force building and also its support to some terrorist organizations like Hizbullah," he said Wednesday. "The only thing that [works] with Iran is economic pressure, combined with a valid military threat." He noted that the regime agreed to negotiate with the Obama administration only after punishing sanctions were introduced. "Iranian nuclear capability should not be only frozen, but dismantled," he said, adding that this is about the safety of the "entire world." Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, deputy mayor of Jerusalem, said Thursday, "It is the only thing that will work. Anything else is a capitulation....That's the only policy that's shown any signs of working."