FACT CHECK · IRAN
Claim: Leave Iran alone and it leaves you alone
FALSETHE ANSWER
The record since 1979: US embassy seized, 52 Americans held 444 days; 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, 241 US troops killed; a US court held Iran liable in 2007.
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