Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz went after PolitiFact in an op-ed for National Review Tuesday, calling the outlet "a new species of yellow journalism" that reports its own opinions as facts and accuses anyone who disagrees of lying.

They recently "fact-checked" his statement regarding President Obama's Iran deal and Cruz did some fact-checking of his own. To counter their disbelief that this deal accelerates Iran's nuclear capabilities, Cruz wrote:

Here are three real facts, which PolitiFact conveniently ignores. First, Iran’s leaders are not only frank and open about their history of cheating on international deals, they have also bluntly told us their prime objective, which is to destroy both Israel and the United States.

Second, under President Obama’s nuclear deal, more than $100 billion would flow directly to Iran as economic sanctions are relaxed and frozen assets released.

Third, the so-called inspections regime that is supposed to guarantee Tehran’s compliance with the deal is on its face absurdly ineffective.

Cruz elaborates that these inspections are a part of what is effectively a side-deal that not even the Obama administration knows the details of. What is known, according to the op-ed, is that certain "military" facilities are off-limits to inspectors, Iran will get 24 days advance notice before any inspections take place -- plenty of time to remove evidence, states Cruz -- and Iran will do its own inspections and report the "results."

"Now, PolitiFact might naively choose to agree with President Obama and John Kerry that the Iranian regime will be true to their word and carry out their self-inspections in good faith, and use their $100 billion signing bonus to improve their energy infrastructure and fund cancer research," Cruz writes. "But that belief, most emphatically, is not a fact."

The Texas senator reminded that this deal with Iran was negotiated by the Clinton-era's Wendy Sherman, who is responsible for the catastrophic deal reached with North Korea in the '90s, which easily allowed nuclear weapons to be developed in that country with the billions of dollars released by the lifted sanctions. It is estimated they may have nearly 50 nuclear weapons, some of which they have tested.

Cruz ends with a dire warning:

With Iran, the consequences are far more dangerous. Theocratic zealots like Ayatollah Khamenei and his fellow mullahs who embrace death and suicide cannot necessarily be deterred by ordinary cost-benefit analysis.

There is a much stronger factual basis to assert that sending $100 billion dollars to a rogue regime that has considered itself at war with America for more than 35 years, is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, and has been lying about its clandestine nuclear program for a decade is just plain foolish. And it is profoundly dangerous. And that’s a fact even PolitiFact should be able to recognize.

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