Huckabee: ‘We got nothing’ from Iran deal

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) said on Sunday that there is no benefit for Americans in President Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran.

{mosads}“We got nothing out of this deal, John,” the 2016 GOP presidential candidate told host John Dickerson on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

“And my comments, while the president may have called them ridiculous, what’s ridiculous is that we would ever trust the Iranians who for 36 years have vowed that they will wipe Israel off the face of the map and have vowed that they will bring death to America and chanted it even during the negotiations,” he added.

Huckabee sparked outrage for invoking the Holocaust last week in his criticism of the pact over Iran’s nuclear arms research.

He argued on Sunday that his reference to the Nazis’ attempted genocide of the Jews is justified, given Iran’s hatred of Israel.

“As a person who has been going to Israel dozens of times over the past 42 years since 1973 and as a person who has stood in Auschwitz on three different occasions and understood the gravity of the situation, when someone is saying they’re going to kill an entire group of people, we better take it seriously,” Huckabee said of Iran.

Huckabee then charged that the Obama administration is seeking higher profits by striking its bargain with Iranian leadership.

“I believe it’s a money deal,” he told Dickerson. “If you look through, there are dozens of pages of all the companies and entities that are going to have their assets unfrozen.”

“I cannot help but believe that a lot of this is being driven not to secure peace in the Middle East, not to make the world safer, but to make sure that a lot of people with a lot of money get their money back,” Huckabee said. “And that’s a tragedy.”

“It’s a real sad state of affairs when we put money ahead of national security and security for not just the people of Israel but all of the Middle East and all of the world,” he added.