Washington (CNN) Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar made a significant false claim about Iran in a Monday appearance on "CNN Tonight with Don Lemon."

While criticizing President Donald Trump's decision to order the killing of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani, Klobuchar said of Iran: "They are now announcing that they're going to start developing a nuclear weapon and move toward busting through the cap on uranium enrichment."

Facts First: Iran continues to say that it has no plans to create a nuclear weapon. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif told NPR in an : Iran continues to say that it has no plans to create a nuclear weapon. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif told NPR in an interview published Tuesday: "Iran does not want a nuclear bomb, does not believe that nuclear bombs create security for anybody. And we believe it's time for everybody to disarm rather than to arm." Iran has consistently claimed that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

After we notified Klobuchar's campaign that we planned to call her claim about "a nuclear weapon" false, the campaign implicitly acknowledged that she had been inaccurate.

"She meant that Iran announced that it was going to bust through the uranium enrichment caps, which were in place to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. This is the better way to say it and how she has said it in the past," said national press secretary Carlie Waibel. Waibel passed along examples of Klobuchar speaking accurately about Iran and enrichment caps without making the inaccurate claim about "a nuclear weapon."

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