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All Fact-checks for Iran

Instagram posts

stated on October 1, 2024 in an Instagram post

Video shows a missile strike on Israel.

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stated on October 1, 2024 in X posts

Video shows an Iranian missile attack.

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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.

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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…”.

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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.”

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Instagram posts

stated on April 13, 2024 in una publicación en Instagram

Video muestra “ataque aéreo de Irán contra Israel".

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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.”

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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".

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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.”

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Instagram posts

stated on April 14, 2024 in a video

Video is from Iranian media and shows rockets fired at Israel on April 13.

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Instagram posts

stated on April 13, 2024 in an Instagram post

Footage shows “Israelis panicking after Iranian attacks reach Israel.”

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stated on April 14, 2024 in a post

“Not even one rocket (from Iran) hit Israel.”

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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.”

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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.

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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.”

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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.”

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Instagram posts

stated on October 7, 2023 in a Facebook post

Video shows Iranian lawmakers chanting “death to America” in 2023.

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stated on May 17, 2023 in a speech at the Hudson Institute

Barack Obama said that Iran has a “right” to nuclear technology, including weapons.

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Instagram posts

stated on November 14, 2022 in an Instagram post

“Iran sentences 15,000 protesters to death.”

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Instagram posts

stated on September 28, 2022 in a video

Father danced for his daughter at her grave after she was killed during recent protests in Iran.

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Fact-check: What Trump said about ‘$6 billion to Iran,’ immigration, economy at New Hampshire rally

Fact-check: What Trump said about ‘$6 billion to Iran,’ immigration, economy at New Hampshire rally

By Matthew Crowley • October 9, 2023

The US freed $6 billion in Iranian money. Did it help fund Hamas’ attack on Israel?

The US freed $6 billion in Iranian money. Did it help fund Hamas’ attack on Israel?

By Louis Jacobson • October 9, 2023

Latest promises about Iran

Rejoin Iran nuclear deal

End wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East

Renegotiate the Iran deal

Make sure Iran does not get a nuclear weapon

Work to persuade the European Union to end credit guarantees to Iran