Less than one week after Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton doubled down on her support for the controversial nuclear agreement with Iran, ex-Clinton official Larry Haas says the United States is in a “dangerous” predicament and is losing its credibility because of the 2015 pact.

During a Monday interview on “The Laura Ingraham Show,” Ingraham asked Haas, former communications director for Vice President Al Gore and senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, how he would characterize the United States’ foreign policy in the wake of the deal.

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“President Obama has really tried to rewrite the traditional foreign policy that we’ve had in the United States for most of the post-WWII period, where we played the role of creating and leading the free world,” Haas said. “He spoke about reducing the American footprint, about nation-building here at home, and it seems to rest on a theory that the world will be a safer, more secure, less dangerous place to the extent that the United States steps back.”

“I think that after seven-and-a-half years, exactly the opposite has happened,” Hass continued, “When America is not present … the world becomes less stable, more dangerous.”

Saying there needs to be a “firmness of a vision and a straightforwardness of walking through what our major problems are and tackling them,” Haas warned of the dangers posed by “loopholes” in the Hillary Clinton-backed Iran deal.

“Even if they adhere to the strict letters of this agreement … they can move to nuclear weaponry,” Haas said, adding that the U.S. is “playing this exactly the opposite of the way we should be playing it.”

“I think that the overriding point being one of American credibility really is key,” Haas said. “We’ve reached the stage right now in which our allies are not reassured by us and adversaries do not fear us.”