Here's how Republican candidates are trashing Obama's Iran deal

Republican presidential candidates almost universally came out on Tuesday against the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran.

Following the announcement of a joint nuclear agreement among Iran and world powers, the 2016 Republican field sounded off in lockstep opposition to the deal.

Though the candidates who offered opinions unanimously denounced the deal, their responses varied on nuance. Some candidates cited specific concessions in the deal, and others faulted the administration for negotiating with Iran in the first place.

Some notable exceptions didn't immediately offer a reaction: Sens. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and real-estate magnate Donald Trump. 

Here's how they each reacted to the deal: 

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R)

Walker railed against the Obama administration's agreement with one of the most forceful statements on the deal, calling it one of America's "worst diplomatic failures."

'The deal rewards the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism with a massive financial windfall, which Iran will use to further threaten our interests and key allies, especially Israel," Walker said.

Walker also hinted that if he wins the White House, he would not be "bound" by the deal. 

"Iran's Supreme Leader should know that a future American president will not be bound by this diplomatic retreat," Walker said. "Undoing the damage caused by this deal won't be easy. But when the United States leads, and has a president who isn't eager to embrace Iran, the world will follow."

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R).

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R)

Bush railed against the deal in a statement on Tuesday, calling the agreement "appeasement," and saying that it "paves Iran's path for a bomb."

"The clerical leaders in Tehran routinely preach  'death to America' and 'death to Israel' - and through their acts of terror, they mean it," Bush said.  We must take these threats seriously and should not base any agreements on the hope their behavior will moderate over time."

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Friday, Bush said that the Obama administration was trying to cloak its argument in technical, nuanced language to hide a bad deal.

"This is the game that the Obama administration spokespeople play, that unless you're for their nuanced, sophisticated, trust-me-I'm-just-smarter-than-the-rest-of-us kind of view, then you're a war monger," Bush said on Friday. 

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida)

Rubio, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, lashed out at the Obama administration for negotiating with a regime that the senator sees as consistently trying to undermine the US. 

"President Obama has consistently negotiated from a position of weakness, giving concession after concession to a regime that has American blood on its hands, holds Americans hostage, and has consistently violated every agreement it ever signed," Rubio said.

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R)

Christie used a brief statement to bash Obama over what Christie perceives as weakness in the administration's Middle East policy. 

"After two years of humiliating concessions by President Obama, he has made a deal with Iran," Christie said in a statement on Tuesday. "He should have walked away."

"Iran joins the sad list of countries where America's red lines have ben crossed," Christie added, referencing Obama's reluctance to follow through with his promise to hold Syria's regime to a "red line" in 2013 and ultimately backing off airstrikes.

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Chris Christie.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R)

The former Fox News host echoed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, emphasizing that the deal would be harmful to Israel.

Earlier in the week, Huckabee tried to draw historic Cold War parallels by releasing a remake of President Lyndon Johnson's famous 1964 "Daisy" campaign advertisement.

Huckabee's ad cites a nuclear threat to Israel, showing a mushroom cloud and then cutting to text that reads, "A threat to Israel is a threat to America."

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)

Cruz released a detailed statement Tuesday morning detailing the many issues that he has with the plan, citing Iran's ability to keep some centrifuges spinning. Cruz also noted that Iran was still holding several American citizens as prisoners. 

"He failed to mention American citizens, Saeed Abedini, Amir Hekmati and Jason Rezaian, who continue to languish in Iranian prisons or Robert Levinson, who is still unaccounted for," Cruz said.

"I urge all my fellow citizens to speak out and let their elected leaders know that even if President Obama won't see it, we know the leaders of the Islamic Republic who lead crowds in chants of 'Death to America' and 'Death to Israel' are not our partners in peace, and must not be put on the path to a nuclear bomb," Cruz said.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina)

In an interview on MSNBC, Graham said that although he shares Obama's goal of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, the administration's current deal won't keep a nuke out of Iran's hands. 

"You've ensured that the Arabs will go nuclear. You've put Israel in the worst possible box. This will be a death over time sentence to Israel if they don't push back," Graham said. "You put our nation at risk."

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R)

Perry has already declared in April that he'd invalidate any Iran agreement if he was elected President in 2016.

On Tuesday, he tweeted out a brief quote slamming the deal. 

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R)

Jindal jabbed both President Obama and Hillary Clinton over the Iran deal. 

In a series of tweets on Tuesday, the Louisiana governor said that the deal would "deplete our military strength."

Carly Fiorina

Appearing on CBS on Tuesday, Fiorina said that the Obama administration was not sufficiently suspicious of Iranian intentions.

"Iran has demonstrated bad behavior for 30 years," said Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO. "We know they have been trying to cheat on this deal. We know they have been funding proxies with a strategic objective of destabilizing the region. We know that when sanctions are lifted, they'll have more money to fund those same proxies."

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Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina speaks at the First in the Nation Republican Leadership Summit April 18, 2015 in Nashua, New Hampshire.