The Obama administration might form a deal with Iran this month that will allow the country to maintain some uranium enrichment capabilities, a move that former UN Ambassador John Bolton characterized as "an open path to nuclear weapons" during Thursday's broadcast of "The Kelly File" on the Fox News Channel.
"The odds are right now the deal will be signed and that Iran will have an open path to nuclear weapons," Bolton told host Megyn Kelly, adding that President Obama is so desperate to get a deal done that he operates under a "policy of appeasement."
On Thursday's show, Bolton predicted that if Tehran is given permission through the deal to possess those uranium enrichment capabilities, then none of the countries, including the United States, will be able to keep watch or monitor what Iran will decide to do with it, Breitbart reported.
"Leaving any uranium enrichment capability in the hands of this regime in Tehran is an invitation for them to break out into nuclear weapons capability," he continued. "There is no negotiation with a regime like this."
"There's no guarantee that the verification mechanisms that are required are going to work. You really think we really know everything about Iran's nuclear weapons program, like whether some of it's being conducted in North Korea?"
"I have no faith in our verification capabilities, number one. Number two, to the extent Iran is allowed any continuing uranium enrichment capability at all, and that's where the administration's concessions are moving, it has in its hands the long pole in the tent that any aspiring nuclear weapons state wants," he said.
While teaming up with Iran to battle against the Islamic State may prove to be an advantage, it was not worth taking the risk of a "nuclear war," according to Newsmax.
"The notion of cooperating against ISIS sounds superficially appealing, but the fact of the matter is our differences with Iran are far greater than any common interest regarding ISIS. In this Middle East, which is descending into chaos, Iran remains America's principle adversary. And while we certainly have to deal with ISIS, we don't want to do anything that bolsters the regime in Tehran or its satellite regime in Baghdad."
He also argued, "We are mistreating our Arab friends in the region very badly. You know, they don't want Iran to get a nuclear weapon any more than Israel does. We have more commonality between Israel and the Sunni Arab states and their concern about Iran's nuclear weapons program than almost any other issue."
Since the White House is "desperate" to be the first ones to grab the bragging rights with the deal, the Obama administration has allegedly already made further concessions in its "zeal for a deal," according to Bolton.
The policy is "doomed to failure," he added.
Meanwhile, two people were allegedly killed after a massive explosion occurred near a suspected nuclear facility in Iran in October, prompting speculation of sabotage at a facility long suspected of being an "explosives producing factory" in eastern Tehran, according to Iran's Defense Industries Organization (DIO), which operates under the country's Ministry of Defense.
For years, top secret experiments involving "high-explosive shaped charges with an inert core of depleted uranium" have been used by Iran's nuclear scientists to test the characteristics of an implosion style nuclear device.
