Statement·other·said 2015-07-15
“President 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.”
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Verdict
Falseby PolitiFact
2015-07-22Reasoning
When the actual P5+1 negotiations began in late 2013, Obama publicly said full elimination of every component "is not available." Cotton conflated early-2010s rhetoric with the real negotiating posture.
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