Lie September 21, 2018 · Rally · Foreign policy

“Look at what happened to Iran since we did that [killed the nuclear deal]. Look at what happened. Riots in every city. You know when I took over and before I took over, everybody said, Iran will take over the entire Middle East. Now Iran wants to survive, OK. They're no longer looking at the Mediterranean.”

Said
September 21, 2018
Where
Campaign rally
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
76 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 5130)

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