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Hillary Clinton supplied Iran with uranium to enrich their nuclear program.

There's no documented transfer from Clinton or the State Department to Iran. This claim likely traces back to Uranium One, a 2010 deal that sold a Canadian mining company with U.S. uranium assets to Russia's Rosatom. Iran wasn't a party to that deal, and Clinton was one of nine agency heads who signed off on it.

Her actual involvement with Iran's nuclear program was the 2015 JCPOA negotiations, which reduced Iran's centrifuge count and enriched-uranium stockpile.

Barack Obama gave Iran $1.7 billion that they used to fund their nuclear program.

The Obama administration released the $1.7 billion the same week it implemented the JCPOA and completed a prisoner exchange for five Americans held in Iran. Three separate matters, closed together in one week — that timing is why this payment became controversial.

The money itself traces to a canceled 1979 arms deal: $400 million was principal Iran had paid into a US trust fund for military equipment it never received after the Shah's government fell, and the remaining $1.3 billion was interest the US agreed to pay on top of that, covering nearly four decades. Because sanctions blocked a normal wire transfer, the $400 million went out in cash, on an unmarked cargo plane. Wall Street Journal reporting found Iranian officials weren't allowed to take control of the cash until a plane carrying the freed Americans left Iranian airspace — DOJ had objected in advance that this would look like a ransom, and State Department spokesman John Kirby later acknowledged the US maintained "maximum leverage" at the "endgame."

The nuclear-funding part of the claim is unsupported. No congressional investigation or intelligence assessment has traced the $1.7 billion to Iran's nuclear program — Senator Lankford's own 2016 oversight letter to the Obama administration asked directly whether such evidence existed and got no confirmation. What people usually mean by "funded the nuclear program" is the much larger JCPOA sanctions relief, a separate pool of unfrozen Iranian assets estimated at $25–56 billion, not this $1.7 billion payment.

Joe Biden unfroze over $16 billion of funds for Iran.

This figure combines two separate actions. The $6 billion prisoner-swap waiver was Biden's: in August 2023, his administration let $6 billion in Iranian oil revenue move from a South Korean bank to a restricted account in Qatar, designated for humanitarian purchases only, and Secretary Blinken said in October 2023 that none had been spent.

The other roughly $10 billion comes from an Iraq-Iran electricity sanctions waiver that Trump's first administration created in 2018, when it reimposed sanctions after leaving the JCPOA — Iraq needed time to wean off Iranian power. Both the first Trump administration and the Biden administration renewed that waiver repeatedly for years, and Trump's second administration ended it in March 2025 as part of a renewed "maximum pressure" campaign.

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