Fact-check: “Obama on Iran: "We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There's no dispute that it worked and we didn't have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down…”
Verdict: Misleading (72% confidence)
Multiple news sources from May 13-14, 2026 document Obama making this statement in a Stephen Colbert interview, and the attribution is supported. However, the substantive claim that 'there's no dispute that it worked' is materially contradicted by the documented post-JCPOA record: after U.S. withdrawal in 2018 and Iran's subsequent noncompliance, the IAEA documented Iran enriching uranium to 60% and building a stockpile far exceeding JCPOA limits, and the IAEA itself has reported unresolved ver…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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