The GOP candidates battled over Iraq and condemned US President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran among foreign policy issues in the second debate of the 2016 Republican White House race.

Among the candidates, Ted Cruz, a US senator from Texas, said the nuclear deal with Iran should be ripped up.
Cruz pointed to the threat of a nuclear Iran as the main threat to America’s national security, saying the deal back by the Obama administration will provide Iran with $100 billion, “making the Obama administration the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism.”

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Hukabee also came out staunchly against the nuclear deal with Iran, saying the current administration treats it like the “Magna Carta,” while “Iranians treat it like it’s toilet paper.”

He stressed that the next US president, whomever it may be, will “destroy” the deal and take a tough stance on Iran.

“This is a government for 36 years has killed Americans, they kidnapped Americans, they have maimed Americans. They have sponsored terrorist groups, Hamas and Hezbollah, and they threaten the very essence of Western civilization.”

Newcomer Fiorina state that if elected, on her first day in the Oval Office she would first call her “good friend” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reassure him of Washington’s support for Israel.

“The second, to the supreme leader [of Iran, Ali Khamenei], to tell him that unless and until he opens every military and every nuclear facility to real anytime, anywhere inspections by our people, not his, we, the United States of America, will make it as difficult as possible and move money around the global financial system,” said former businesswoman Carly Fiorina.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio also chimed in on the Iran issue, saying it allows the Tehran regime with a “radical Shia cleric with an apocalyptic vision of the future” to achieve nuclear weapons capabilities and long-range rockets that can strike the US.