If he’d be elected as the US president, republican candidate Rick Santorum said he would bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities if Tehran does not open up its sites for international arms inspectors

If he’d be elected as the US president, republican candidate Rick Santorum said he would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities if Tehran does not open up its sites for international arms inspectors.

The former Pennsylvania senator 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.

He also slammed, during an interview with NBC television's "Meet the Press”, US President Barack Obama for not doing enough to disrupt Iran's nuclear program. This, Santorum said, risked turning the US into a "paper tiger."

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has conducted numerous inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities, but has never found any evidence indicating that Tehran's nuclear program has been diverted towards weapons production.