Iran Nuclear Deal was started by GW Bush: A little history

http://www.vox.com/2015/7/14/8958245/iran-nuclear-deal-bush

 The deal Obama just signed is the extension of an Iran policy that began under George W. Bush.

As the Council on Foreign Relations' Micah Zenko points out, the Bush administration offered to negotiate directly with Iran over its nuclear program in 2006 — the first such American offer in about 25 years. That doesn't mean Bush would have necessarily taken the exact same deal as Obama, but it's a reminder that some of the political rhetoric around the deal is exactly that — political.