US 🇺🇸 defence chief suggests backing Iran nuclear deal 🇮🇷

The US should consider staying in the Iran nuclear deal, Defence Secretary James Mattis has suggested. Asked in a Senate hearing whether he thought this was in the national interest, he said that it was. 

President Donald Trump, who is highly critical of the deal, is to decide by 15 October whether Iran is complying. The White House has not commented on the defence secretary's remarks. The 2015 accord was designed to prevent Iran developing a nuclear weapon.

"I believe at this point in time, absent indications to the contrary, it is something that the president should consider staying with," Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington. "If we can confirm that Iran is living by the agreement, if we can determine that this is in our best interest, then clearly we should stay with it," he added.

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