The former US president, who signed his country’s last nuclear deal with Iran, has criticised the Trump administration’s deal with Iran in an interview with NBC, reports Al Jazeera.

“A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse off,” Barack Obama has said in an interview with NBC’s TODAY show cohost Craig Melvin that aired on Friday.

“I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds,” Obama says.

He has questioned the rationale for the Trump administration’s war on Iran. The former president says that under the Iran nuclear deal negotiated during his administration, “Iran had agreed not to develop nuclear weapons.

“This administration, or a prior version of this administration, pulled out of it, which caused then Iran to develop more nuclear capacity,” Obama has said.