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diplomacy is what Obama administration had used to negotiate a scenario in Iran where we did not have proliferation of nuclear material

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Abdul El-Sayed, at Michigan U.S. Senate General Election Debate 1 (WOOD TV8)

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Why we checked itThis refers to the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) and claims it successfully prevented nuclear proliferation — a contested assertion about the deal's effectiveness that is verifiable against IAEA reports and policy records
What we foundThe Obama administration did use diplomacy to negotiate the JCPOA, which successfully constrained Iran's nuclear material during the deal's active years, but the claim overstates the outcome: the deal imposed time-limited restrictions rather than a durable prevention of proliferation, and Iran resumed and accelerated enrichment after the U.S. withdrawal in 2018.
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