Lie February 2, 2017 · Social post · Foreign policy

“Iran was on its last legs and ready to collapse until the U.S. came along and gave it a life-line in the form of the Iran Deal: $150 billion”

Said
February 2, 2017
Where
Twitter (Twitter)
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
136 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 0046)

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