Bolton: Obama deal with Iran ‘fundamentally flawed

Former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton has attacked US President Barack Obama for planning to sign a “flawed” nuclear agreement with Iran.

Speaking at the South Carolina National Security Action Summit in West Columbia, SC, the potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate said the US president is negotiating “an unprecedented act of surrender” with Iran.

“This deal is fundamentally flawed,” he said on Saturday. “There really is no deal I’d trust Iran with.”

Bolton also defended 47 Republican senators, who sent a warning letter to Iran, claiming Obama’s possible nuclear agreement with Iran is a “mere executive agreement” that could be revoked “with the stroke of a pen and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time.”

On Friday, Obama condemned the Republican senators’ move. 

The president said it was “close to unprecedented” that members of Congress would send a letter to Iran’s leaders carrying the message that “don't deal with our president because you can't trust him to follow through on an agreement.”

Bolton said Obama “attacks his own countrymen and our closest allies over this deal.”

“The danger we hope to avoid is now imminent. This is just one example of how the president doesn’t care about America’s national security,” he said. “The gravest threat to our national security sits in the Oval Office.”

Iran and the P5+1 group -- the US, Britain, France, China, Russia, and Germany -- are currently working to complete the outlines of a nuclear deal by the end of March after they reached an interim agreement in November 2013.

The two sides have by the end of June to clinch a final agreement.