WASHINGTON — A military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities is “not prudent” at the present moment, America’s top military official, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, told “CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS” in an interview set to air Sunday morning.

“It’s not prudent at this point to decide to attack Iran,” said Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the interview.

“I think it would be premature to exclusively decide that the time for a military option was upon us,” Dempsey added, according to early reports of the interview, noting that he sensed that increased sanctions were beginning to have an effect.

Dempsey’s remarks come amid a rising tide of threats and speculation — some of it media driven — about the possibility that Israel might launch a military strike against Iran in an attempt to forestall that country’s development of a nuclear weapon. Full Story