Former US vice president Dick Cheney on Tuesday blasted the Iran nuclear deal as "madness" and said it marked a "capitulation" by world powers. 

Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank in Washington, Cheney said the deal will see the "arming and funding (of) Iran while simultaneously providing them a pathway to a nuclear arsenal.It is not an act of peace, is not - as the president claims, the only
alternative to war. It's madness," Cheney added, according to AFP.