Bloomberg- President Barack Obama said he doubts President-elect Donald Trump will scrap a deal with Iran to curtail the country�s nuclear weapons aspirations because the agreement is working.

When the accord was struck in 2015, "the main argument against it was that Iran wouldn�t abide by the deal," Obama said Monday at a White House news conference. "We now have over a year of evidence that they have abided by the deal."

Trump, a Republican, said during his campaign that the Iran agreement was a bad deal and that he would force the Islamic Republic to renegotiate it. He has not addressed the agreement since winning the Nov. 8 election. He and Obama met on Thursday for about 90 minutes to discuss the transition from Obama�s administration to Trump�s, including current policies Obama hopes will continue after the Jan. 20 inauguration.

"My suspicion is that when the president-elect comes in and is consulting with his fellow Republicans on the Hill, that they will look at the facts," Obama said. "To unravel a deal that�s working and preventing Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon would be hard to explain," particularly if it leaves Iran free to reconstitute its weapons programs, he said.