US Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has said he would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities upon his election as president if Tehran does not open up its sites for international arms inspectors, Press TV reported.
Talking to NBC television's "Meet the Press," Santorum said he would tell the Iranian leaders to either open up those facilities, begin to dismantle them and make them available to the inspectors - or the US would attack them.
The former Pennsylvania senator also slammed US President Barack Obama for not doing enough to disrupt Iran's nuclear program. This, he said, risked turning the US into a "paper tiger."
The United States, Israel, and some of their allies accuse Tehran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear program.
Iran, however, refutes such allegations as "baseless" and maintains that as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the IAEA it has every right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.