Democrats and Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sparred Tuesday over whether the White House, led by national security adviser Ben Rhodes, misled the public about the nuclear agreement with Iran in order to sell the deal to Congress and the public.

A panel of Iran experts invited to testify in Rhodes’ stead by committee Republicans argued the administration created a false narrative in which America’s only options were war or the nuclear deal, a dichotomy they said was misleading.