The country of Iran is often discussed on the campaign trail.  In fact, GOP presidential candidate and current frontrunner Donald Trump frequently brings the Iran nuclear deal up during debates and speeches.

During a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Trump said, "During the last five years, Iran has perpetrated terror attacks in 25 different countries on five continents."

PolitiFact Florida heard the claim and gave it a HALF TRUE rating.

PolitiFact writer Joshua Gillin said Trump got it right that Iran is a sponsor or international terror groups, but the problem is, Trump misstated a talking point from the Israeli government.  The Israelis did not use the word "attacks."

"They involved actually having some kind of reach: sponsoring, giving money, weapons," Gillin said. "There’s a lot of different things here and there’s only a couple of actual attacks involved."

For that reason, Trump’s statement received a HALF TRUE rating.

SOURCES:  Iran supports terrorism Trump claims

  • Donald Trump, speech to AIPAC, March 22, 2016
  • Embassy of Israel in Washington, "The Long Arm of Iran," accessed March 22, 2016
  • Embassy of Israel in Washington, tweet, Nov. 25, 2015
  • Benjamin Netanyahu, speech to AIPAC, March 2, 2015
  • Lahav Harkov, tweet, March 2, 2015
  • U.S. Department of State, "State Sponsors of Terrorism Overview," accessed March 22, 2016
  • Global Terrorism Database, accessed March 22, 2016
  • Congressional Research Service, "Iran’s Foreign Policy," Jan. 29, 2016
  • ynetnews.com, "PM reveals: South Africa attack against Israelis thwarted," July 20, 2012
  • Email interview with Barnett Rubin, associate director of NYU’s Center on International Cooperation, March 22, 2016
  • Email interview with John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, March 22, 2016
  • Email interview with Ted Bromund, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, March 22, 2016
  • Email interview with Michael O’Hanlon, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, March 22, 2016
  • Email interview with Benjamin Friedman, research fellow at the Cato Institute, March 22, 2016
  • Interview with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, March 22, 2016