Lie April 2, 2019 · Speech · Foreign policy

“I withdrew the United States from the disastrous Iran Nuclear Deal -- and Iran is a different country. When I first came here, Iran was going to take over the Middle East and there was no stopping him. And I took out of that deal. I terminated that deal and they have gone to hell. That's a different country.”

Said
April 2, 2019
Where
Speech
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 9721)

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