Donald Trump has claimed that he’s achieved a peace deal with Iran, announcing a deal is “all signed” despite a lot of speculation over how the deal will actually go into effect. Barack Obama is one of these skeptics, saying in a recent interview that it’s “doubtful” Trump’s peace deal will deliver any meaningful or lasting improvement over past nuclear agreements. Keep reading for more information.
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Donald Trump Claims His Peace Deal Is 'All Signed'
Donald Trump arrived to the G7 Summit in France on June 15th, and as he gathered alongside other western leaders to discuss the peace deal, he announced, "The deal's all signed. And the strait is already partially opened." Speaking of the strait of Hormuz, he promised the waterway would be completely open by this Friday.
Trump feels so confident about his peace deal that he rejected a proposed UK-France naval mission in the strait, saying, "I don't think we will need much help" in keeping the strait open.
"I think a lot of great things are going to happen in the Middle East right now," Trump said. "And very importantly, the oil is plummeting down and the stock market is shooting up like a rocket today."
'The main thing is that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon," he continued. "They fully agreed to that with strong policing powers, and they won’t have a nuclear weapon, which is what it was all about."
Barack Obama Calls Trump's Peace Deal Claims 'Doubtful'
Unfortunately, former president Barack Obama does not share Trump's confidence. In an interview that aired the day before Trump's announcement, Obama said that it's "doubtful" that Trump's deal will result in "significant improvement."
Rather, he explained that Trump's expected deal comes eight years after Trump withdrew the US from a previous nuclear agreement with Iran that was led by the Obama administration.
"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 told Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts.
