Rep. Peter King blasted the Obama administration’s foreign policy Sunday.
The Republican congressman from New York — who also chairs the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence — criticized the recently reached nuclear deal with Iran as a “bad one” that will have numerous consequences.
“What the U.S. is agreeing to is to lock in the nuclear infrastructure in Iran so that they can break loose, they can break out,” he said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo.
“We are now basically institutionalizing it [Iran’s nuclear power]. We’re allowing Iran to keep what we said we would take away,” King said of the deal reached Thursday between Iran, the U.S. and five other world superpowers.
“I think the president honestly wants a deal, and he’s willing to take a not-so-good deal because I believe that he wants to institutionalize Iran,” he said, adding President Obama wants “to make Iran a dominant player in the Middle East, so you have the U.S. and Iran, almost a balance of power […] like the days of the U.S. and the Soviet Union.”
King added that people he has spoken to in Washington with knowledge of the Obama administration’s foreign policy believe that Obama “wants to end the days of us feuding with Iran … and if Iran is given this leeway, that they will join the community of nations.”
Now, “the Middle East is out of control,” he said. “There isn’t any grand strategy. … He’s [Obama] willing to live with a strong Iran, believing that if we make certain concessions to them, we can work with them.”
