Obama, Susan Rice Repeat Claim to Have ‘Halted’ Iran’s Nuclear Progress

More than two weeks after saying during his State of the Union address that an interim agreement with Iran had “halted the progress of its nuclear program” – a claim since disputed – President Obama repeated the assertion in his National Security Strategy report, released on Friday.
“We are currently testing whether it is possible to achieve a comprehensive resolution to assure the international community that Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful, while the Joint Plan of Action has halted the progress of Iran’s program,” Obama wrote in the introductory letter to the NSS.

 

The report repeats the claim on two other occasions, referring in one instance to “a diplomatic effort that has already stopped the progress of Iran’s nuclear program,” and elsewhere to “a first step arrangement that stops the progress of Iran’s nuclear program…”

 

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