President Barack Obama's claim that Tuesday's deal with Iran has stopped nuclear proliferation is a "lie," says former Vice President Dick Cheney, and may, in fact, have put the world "closer to use of nuclear weapons than we've been at any time since Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
Appearing Tuesday on Fox News Channel's
"Hannity," Cheney echoed other critics who say the deal will actually spark a nuclear arms race in the Middle East as other Arab countries fear Iran is now free to build its own weapons.
Further, Cheney said, those nations no longer believe they can rely on the United States to protect them against nuclear aggressors.
"For one thing, we haven't kept our word to them in the past," Cheney said, adding that the United States is dramatically reducing its own capabilities. "Obama keeps talking about getting rid of all nuclear weapons," he said.
"He's not man of his word. He's not a man that can be trusted," Cheney said of Obama. "Our allies who find their survival at question, there isn't any way they're going to rely on Barack Obama for safety and security. They'll get their own."
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