Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo joins 'Fox News @ Night.'.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others slammed the Biden administration Thursday after the White House signaled it was ready to restart diplomacy with Tehran over a nuclear deal.

The critics argued that the administration was rushing into talks with a regime that's accused of sponsoring terror attacks against U.S. forces. Others fear the Biden administration may provide Iran with sanctions relief and concessions with little shift in its nuclear program.

I led a response to the Iranian threat that protected the American people from its terror and supported the Jewish state of Israel," Pompeo told the Washington Free Beacon. "Adopting the European Union model of accommodation ...

Pompeo said the Trump administration -- which in 2018 withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration and other nations -- "refused" to "appease the Iranian theocracy," according to the Washington Free Beacon.

His comments came after State Department spokesman Ned Price said Thursday that the Biden administration would "accept an invitation from the European Union High Representative to attend a meeting of the P5+1 and Iran to discuss a diplomatic way forward on Iran’s nuclear program.".

President Biden's administration needs to avoid the Obama administration's mistakes in dealing with Iran, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday.

Earlier this week, during an appearance on "Fox News @ Night," Pompeo responded to comments by his successor at the State Department, Secretary Antony Blinken, who claimed the U.S.

Bream then asked Pompeo how the Biden adminstration should properly respond to aggressive behavior from Iran.

"Iran takes cheating on the nuclear deal to the next level, fires rockets at Americans in Erbil just days ago, then threatens to keep nuclear inspectors out, and how does Biden respond.

"It is concerning the Biden administration is already making concessions in an apparent attempt to re-enter the flawed Iran deal," said McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee

The Iran nuclear deal framework â€“ officially the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action â€“ was a historic agreement reached by Iran and several world powers, including the U.S., in 2015