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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz claimed President Barack Obama supported Iran’s right to possess nuclear technology. “Only a fool would want the Ayatollah to have nuclear weapons,” Cruz said. But Obama never said Iran has a right to nuclear weapons.

Speaking on May 17 at a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C., Cruz compared Obama’s foreign policy stance to that of President Joe Biden related to Ukraine, Russia and Iran. The Republican senator from Texas called Democrats"hopelessly naive when it comes to foreign policy."

Obama covered what he described as several"sources of tension" between the U.S. and Islam, including violent extremism, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, women’s rights, and nuclear arms and Iran. In a nuclear reactor, that reaction is controlled, allowing a relatively constant stream of fission, Green said. Energy is used to turn water into steam, which powers electrical generators and slowly depletes the nuclear fuel.

Although numerous challenges exist to make a nuclear bomb, the most difficult step is likely producing the material for fission, Green said. A nuclear energy program both requires and produces the fissile materials needed to make a bomb. Rodenbush directed PolitiFact to a 2018 statement by Obama, in which he criticized former President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the accord, arguing that Iran would now be more likely to obtain nuclear weapons.

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