Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak says he fears the United States will make a bad nuclear deal with Iran, allowing the state sponsor of terrorism to become a nuclear power.
With the Tuesday deadline likely to be extended for at least a week, Barak said Monday on Fox News Channel's
"On the Record with Greta Van Susteren" his biggest fear is that the United States will not require inspections at Iranian nuclear facilities.
Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful energy-production purposes, but the West, Israel and Arab neighbors are skeptical, citing "Death to America" chants at official government events and the country's vow to wipe Israel off the map.
Barak told Fox News he wants to know what will be done to Iran if it breaks the deal.
"How about snapping back the sanctions?" he said, and at what stage would the military option be considered?
Even with good inspections, he said, the Iranians always have the option of kicking out inspectors they accuse of being spies for the West and it could take months to get them back in.
The deal would give the West no leverage to "deprive a second-rate dictator from the aspiration to turn into a threatening nuclear power," Barak said. "That would change the world and the region dramatically and in an irreversible way."
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