“The 2015 Iran nuclear agreement “gave (Iran) the right to have top-of-the-line nuclear weapons.”
What PolitiFact found
The nuclear agreement did not bless Iran’s "right" to nuclear weapons. Iran could have acquired or developed a nuclear weapon by defying the terms of the nuclear agreement. That’s because the agreement was based on Iran’s continued adherence to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which Iran signed in 1970. This treaty deems Iran a non-nuclear state, meaning it promised to forgo developing or acquiring nuclear weapons.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (president) made this claim around 3 March 2026. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 March 2026, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- rollcall.comhttps://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-bilat-friedrich-merz-…
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