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Former President Barack Obama has expressed doubts about the effectiveness of any deal President Donald Trump could negotiate to end the U.S.’s war on Iran, suggesting that any potential terms would be similar to terms he had negotiated as president over a decade ago.

In an interview that aired on ABC News Saturday — one day prior to Trump announcing a “deal” on Sunday evening — Obama predicted that the eventual agreement between the U.S. and Iran wouldn’t be much different than the multinational deal he helped broker during his second term in office.

“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, referring to Trump’s decision in 2018 to upend the agreement.

President Barack Obama reacts to U.S. action in Iran as the two sides get closer to a peace deal: “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.”Watch Robin… pic.twitter.com/nNKn1F3a81— ABC News (@ABC) June 14, 2026

President Barack Obama reacts to U.S. action in Iran as the two sides get closer to a peace deal: “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........

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