Former President Barack Obama said it is “doubtful” that President Donald Trump’s emerging agreement with Iran will differ significantly from the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated during his administration. Speaking to ABC News’s Robin Roberts in an interview preview released Sunday, Obama said any agreement reached by the Trump administration would likely resemble the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the multinational accord Trump withdrew from during his first term.“It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different or a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place and had worked for for a long stretch of time before we, the United States, pulled out of it,” Obama said.
The comments come as Trump says the U.S. is in the final stretch of finalizing an agreement with Tehran following months of military conflict and negotiations. The president has repeatedly suggested a deal could be reached quickly and argued that any accord produced by his administration would be stronger than the Obama-era framework.
“Unlike Obama’s Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in payments to them, including 1.7 Billion Dollars in green, cold cash, no money will exchange hands,” Trump wrote on Saturday.
