Quote Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV View Post
Wait... this wasn't public knowledge until now?
It's one thing for it to be "public knowledge," and quite another for the President of the United States to attest to it in a formal setting.

For a contrary example, the Armenian Genocide is "public knowledge," but you aren't going to hear a Turkish Prime Minister acknowledge it in your lifetime.

These distinctions, while relatively meaningless to us, mean a lot to the aggrieved parties. It looks as though the President's take on how to approach Iran was clever in the extreme.