In a volatile speech delivered at the American Enterprise Institute, former Vice President Dick Cheney railed against the Iran nuclear deal. Congress is currently debating and voting on whether to ratify the treaty, and Cheney’s speech urged congressional representatives to override President Obama’s impending veto.

“Arming and funding Iran while simultaneously providing them a pathway to a nuclear arsenal is not an act of peace,” Cheney said. “It’s not, as President Obama claims, the only alternative to war. It is madness.”

Cheney told the audience of his fears of Iran using nuclear weapons to directly attack the United States.

“This agreement will give Iran the means to launch a nuclear attack on the U.S. homeland,” Cheney said. “I know of no nation in history that has agreed to guarantee that the means of its own destruction will be in the hands of another nation, particularly one that is hostile.”

Interestingly enough, Cheney was confronted by Chris Wallace last week on Fox News for creating the Iran situation during the Bush administration. Between 2007 and 2009, Iran went from owning zero uranium enrichment centrifuges to owning 5,000. Cheney responded that even though centrifuges increased in that area before Obama was even elected, the Bush-Cheney administration did a better job of dealing with the “arms control problem.”