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Nuclear Deal Empowered Iran, Saudi Deputy Minister Says

Air defense displayed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, during an annual military parade in Tehran. 

Air defense displayed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, during an annual military parade in Tehran. 

Photographer: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images

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The Iran nuclear deal empowered the country to step up the developing of traditional weapons and has created more destruction in the Middle East, the Saudi deputy defense minister said.

The Iranian regime increased the budgets of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, Hezbollah and the Houthis, Saudi Deputy Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman said in an interview with Vice Media Saturday. “There were way more ballistic missiles launched at the Kingdom after the nuclear deal than before,” he said.