Iran Scorecard true 0% 5 Checks mostly-true 0% 1 Checks Half True 0% 3 Checks mostly-false 0% 6 Checks false 0% 36 Checks Pants on Fire 0% 10 Checks For more details, see the Principles of PolitiFact All Fact-checks for Iran X posts stated on June 22, 2025 in an X post: Video shows protesters “outraged” over U.S. attacks in Iran. June 24, 2025 Social Media stated on June 22, 2025 in a video: Video shows a woman wearing a rainbow hijab and a bomb vest who filmed her visit to Iran. June 24, 2025 X posts stated on June 13, 2025 in an X post: Photo shows Israeli pilot Sarah Ahronot, who was captured by Iran. June 23, 2025 X posts stated on June 22, 2025 in an X post: Video shows “massive fire after Iranian missile made impact in Tel Aviv” in June 2025. June 23, 2025 Instagram posts stated on October 1, 2024 in an Instagram post: Video shows a missile strike on Israel. October 7, 2024 X posts stated on October 1, 2024 in X posts: Video shows an Iranian missile attack. October 3, 2024 Instagram posts stated on June 22, 2024 in an Instagram post: Video shows a banner with Iran’s supreme leader displayed at the Brooklyn Museum. June 24, 2024 Instagram posts stated on May 22, 2024 in una publicación en Instagram: “Revelan momentos exactos de la caída del helicóptero con el presidente de Iran abordo…”. By Maria Briceño • May 29, 2024 Alex Jones stated on May 20, 2024 in an X post: “All of the satellite weather data for the day of the Iranian president’s crash has been removed.” May 24, 2024 Instagram posts stated on April 13, 2024 in una publicación en Instagram: Video muestra “ataque aéreo de Irán contra Israel". By Maria Briceño • April 22, 2024 Viral image stated on April 13, 2024 in a Facebook post: “BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that Russia will support Iran if the United States attacks Iran’s soil in support of Israel.” April 19, 2024 Instagram posts stated on April 13, 2024 in una publicación en Instagram: Video muestra a Israel "bajo ataque desde Yemen, Iraq, el libano y Irán". By Maria Briceño • April 19, 2024 Threads posts stated on April 13, 2024 in a post on Threads: President Joe Biden “will address the nation from the Oval Office” on April 13, “following Iran’s attack on Israel.” April 15, 2024 Instagram posts stated on April 14, 2024 in a video: Video is from Iranian media and shows rockets fired at Israel on April 13. By Loreben Tuquero • April 15, 2024 Instagram posts stated on April 13, 2024 in an Instagram post: Footage shows “Israelis panicking after Iranian attacks reach Israel.” By Loreben Tuquero • April 15, 2024 Threads posts stated on April 14, 2024 in a post: “Not even one rocket (from Iran) hit Israel.” By Sara Swann • April 15, 2024 Eric Hovde stated on March 4, 2024 in Campaign website: Says U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin “was one of the staunchest supporters of the Iran deal which sent billions of dollars and plane loads of cash to Iran.” By Laura Schulte • March 8, 2024 Facebook posts stated on October 18, 2023 in una publicación en Facebook: Irán izó una bandera negra y “esto significa un llamado” a la guerra o venganza. By Loreben Tuquero • November 2, 2023 Donald Trump stated on October 23, 2023 in remarks at a rally in Derry, N.H.: “When I came into office, Iran had $70 billion in foreign exchange reserves. … By the time I left, they had nothing. They were broke.” By Louis Jacobson • October 26, 2023 Facebook posts stated on October 17, 2023 in a Facebook post: Black flag hoisted over a mosque in Iran is a “call to all of Islam for war.” By Loreben Tuquero • October 23, 2023 Load More Latest Articles An X account is impersonating an Iranian journalist. The platform’s guidelines allow it • July 1, 2025 Strait of Hormuz: What to know about the crucial oil passage Iran might block following US strikes • June 23, 2025 False war imagery flooded social media after US attack on Iran. How to tell real footage from fake • June 23, 2025 Are Iranian nuclear sites ‘obliterated,’ as Donald Trump said? Too soon to know, experts say • June 23, 2025 Ask PolitiFact: Was Iran ‘weeks away’ from having a nuclear weapon, as Trump said? • June 23, 2025 Did Trump violate War Powers Act by bombing Iran nuclear sites? • June 22, 2025 Ask PolitiFact: What was the Iran nuclear deal and why did Trump drop out? • June 18, 2025 Does Donald Trump have sole power to decide if and when to strike Iran? Or does Congress have a say? • June 18, 2025 Why a possible U.S. attack on Iran could break a longstanding U.S.-Israel pattern • June 17, 2025 Fact-check: What Trump said about ‘$6 billion to Iran,’ immigration, economy at New Hampshire rally By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley, Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 9, 2023 The US freed $6 billion in Iranian money. Did it help fund Hamas’ attack on Israel? By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • October 9, 2023 Latest promises about Iran Joe Biden Rejoin Iran nuclear deal Biden administration unable to put Iran nuclear deal back together | November 25, 2024 Joe Biden End wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East An end to the Afghanistan War, but continued fighting against Iranian proxies | March 19, 2024 Donald Trump Renegotiate the Iran deal Trump’s pledge to renegotiate Iran deal remains at standstill as election nears | July 15, 2020 Barack Obama Make sure Iran does not get a nuclear weapon Iran has no nuclear capability yet | December 9, 2016 Barack Obama Work to persuade the European Union to end credit guarantees to Iran EU clamps down on Iran but Obama’s role is minor | December 12, 2012 Latest promises about Iran
Joe Biden Rejoin Iran nuclear deal Biden administration unable to put Iran nuclear deal back together | November 25, 2024
Joe Biden End wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East An end to the Afghanistan War, but continued fighting against Iranian proxies | March 19, 2024
Donald Trump Renegotiate the Iran deal Trump’s pledge to renegotiate Iran deal remains at standstill as election nears | July 15, 2020
Barack Obama Make sure Iran does not get a nuclear weapon Iran has no nuclear capability yet | December 9, 2016
Barack Obama Work to persuade the European Union to end credit guarantees to Iran EU clamps down on Iran but Obama’s role is minor | December 12, 2012
