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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis expressed his disapproval of the United States withdrawing from the Iran Nuclear Deal, a multilateral agreement between Iran and the P5+1 (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, and China) that was reached in 2015. The deal, which placed restrictions on Iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief, has been praised by the international community as a significant step forward in nonproliferation efforts.