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Donald Trump
stated on March 15, 2016 a speech at Mar-a-Lago:

Under the Iran nuclear deal, "we give them $150 billion, we get nothing."

False

By Linda Qiu • March 17, 2016

John McCain
stated on February 8, 2016 remarks made on the Fox News segment, Outnumbered:

North Korea’s missiles are "not going to have a capability to reach the United States anytime real soon."

True

By Anthony Cave • February 16, 2016

Ron Johnson
stated on January 22, 2016 a campaign email:

Says Barack Obama's administration has admitted that money from its Iran nuclear deal "would go directly to terrorism."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • January 29, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 14, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.:

China has "total control, just about, of North Korea."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on January 17, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says Hillary Clinton called Barack Obama "naive" for saying he was would "sit down and talk to the Iranians" during the 2008 Democratic primary.

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • January 17, 2016

Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 13, 2016 an interview on CNN:

Until the new Iran deal, China and Russia "have never voted with us at the U.N. on any sanctions on Iran in the past."

Pants on Fire!

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 13, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on November 6, 2015 a Democratic primary forum:

"I spent 18 months putting together the sanctions against Iran so that we could force them to the negotiating table."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • November 23, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on October 30, 2015 remarks during a campaign event in Sioux City, Iowa:

North Korea "has over two-dozen nuclear warheads."

Half-True

By Jason Noble • November 14, 2015

Tim Echols
stated on October 26, 2015 an opinion piece in a trade magazine:

"Our state has no major rivers to produce big hydropower."

Mostly True

By April Hunt • November 10, 2015

Lynn Westmoreland
stated on September 11, 2015 press release:

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry agreed "to lift Iran’s economic and arms sanctions without any proof of change in conduct."

False

By Nancy Badertscher • October 13, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on September 1, 2015 a speech to the Greater Houston Partnership:

The Iran deal "trusts the Iranians to inspect themselves."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • September 18, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on September 9, 2015 a tweet:

"The Iran Deal will facilitate and accelerate the nation of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons."

False

By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2015

Dick Cheney
stated on September 2, 2015 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

Under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty "enrichment has been limited to basically the weapons states."

False

By Jon Greenberg • September 3, 2015

John Kerry
stated on September 2, 2015 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

The nuclear agreement with Iran "never sunsets. There's no sunset in this agreement."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • September 3, 2015

Bloggers
stated on September 25, 2015 posts on the Internet:

Democratic Sens. Ed Markey, Al Franken and Jeanne Shaheen "took Bribes From Iran … They Back Insane NUKE Deal."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2015

Dave Brat
stated on August 10, 2015 a speech.:

"I was one of the few, very few, who voted `no’ on the Iran deal."

False

By Warren Fiske • August 31, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on August 16, 2015 an interview on "Meet the Press":

Says "if the (Iran nuclear) deal gets rejected, they still get" $150 billion.

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • August 16, 2015

Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 27, 2015 an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor":

Russia and China "absolutely said pretty clearly" they would not keep economic sanctions on Iran if the United States "walked away from the deal."

Mostly True

By Anna Bruzgulis • July 30, 2015

Restoration PAC
stated on July 22, 2015 a TV ad:

President Barack Obama met with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani.

Pants on Fire!

By Tom Kertscher • July 24, 2015

Tom Cotton
stated on July 15, 2015 an interview on CNN's "New Day":

President Barack Obama "said at the beginning of the negotiations that the basic approach was to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for dismantling the sanctions."

False

By Christian Belanger • July 22, 2015

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