U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee delivered a blunt message to Tehran, saying Iran must agree to a comprehensive deal dismantling its nuclear ambitions or risk American military force.

In an interview with Fox News, Huckabee stressed that Iranian leaders should take President Donald Trump’s warnings seriously and not assume they are rhetorical.

“If there’s not a deal, and a deal means they get rid of their nuclear enrichment, they don’t have any more aspirations for nuclear weapon, they quit killing their citizens, and they start lowering the inventory of ballistic missiles and especially the range – if they don’t do that, President Trump has said there is no deal,” said the Ambassador.

Huckabee added that any miscalculation by Iran regarding Trump’s resolve would be a serious mistake. “If they don’t believe President Trump will do what he says in a military action, then they’re not real smart and they certainly have a short memory. They don’t remember what happened to them last summer,” he said, referencing U.S. strikes carried out in June against Iranian nuclear facilities during Operation Midnight Hammer.

Turning to the situation in Gaza, Huckabee addressed the aftermath of the war and President Trump’s recent inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace, which is tasked with overseeing reconstruction efforts in the region.

“The great tragedy of Gaza is that it could have been Singapore, but Hamas turned it into Haiti. They built an underground system of tunnels that is larger than the London Underground, over 500 miles of tunnels, to the express purpose of carrying out terrorist activities,” he said.

Huckabee also made clear that, in his view, Israel should not be responsible for funding the rebuilding of Gaza under current circumstances.

“Absolutely not, and I’ll tell you if anything, there ought to be reparations to Israel for the extraordinary fight that they have had to conduct to get their hostages back – 252, including many Americans – and to pay reparations to the families for the 1,200 people who were murdered, massacred and mutilated by these hideous disgusting savages of Hamas,” he said.

{Matzav.com}