The Iran nuclear deal: Five key questions answered
It's an agreement that was made in 2015 between Iran and six world powers - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.
These countries were worried that Iran was on its way to creating nuclear weapons - something it denied.
They'd had economic sanctions - penalties that would hit its economy - on Iran for 10 years before that as a punishment.
It meant that Iran couldn't trade with a lot of other countries.
Iran has some of the biggest oil reserves in the world - so not being able to sell it meant they were missing out on making a lot of money.
Between 2012 and 2016, it's estimated the sanctions caused Iran to lose out on £118bn in oil money.
In return for being able to trade internationally again, Iran had to massively cut down its nuclear energy programme (which it said was only for peaceful purposes).
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