Claim: "In the class of 1968 at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Mahmoud Abbas was one of the members of that class, and so was Ali Khamenei. And that's where they first established relationships with the young Vladimir Putin."
Fact-check: Ben Carson says Mahmoud Abbas, Ali Khamenei, Vladimir Putin knew each other in 1968 Moscow
Verdict: pants-fire
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2015-10-09T00:00:00