Press TV - US President Donald Trump’s only interest is feeding his ego, while pro-Israeli neoconservatives in his administration reject the Iran nuclear deal, according to American scholar Kevin Barrett. 

Trump reiterated on Friday an offer to renegotiate the landmark Iran nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

The JCPOA, which Trump pulled the US out of in May, had been signed after lengthy negotiations between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, plus Germany (P5+1).

Trump claimed he had left the "horrible, one-sided Iran nuclear deal" in order to pressure the Iranian government to end its "malign actions" in the Middle East.

Barrett, an American author, journalist and radio host with a PhD in Islamic and Arabic Studies, told Press TV in a phone interview on Friday that Trump’s repeated offers just served to feed his own ego.

“Donald Trump is apparently reiterating his ego as well as his supposed willingness to negotiate a new deal with Iran to replace the JCPOA. It is kind of amusing because Trump doesn’t seem to know anything about the JCPOA," he said.

"The only thing he knows is that [former US President Barack] Obama negotiated it. And therefore, Trump hates it and wants to replace it with a deal with his name on it … perhaps Trump would be satisfied with it,” Barrett said.

Barrett, however, noted that Trump would never act in defiance to the Neocons in his administration, including US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US National Security Adviser John Bolton.

"John Bolton, Mike Pompeo and their paymaster [Benjamin] "Bibi" Netanyahu and his gangster friends -- like Sheldon Adelson -- would not be happy with this; therefore, it is unlikely, that Trump would have enough initiative of his own to actually do this," he said.

Earlier, Barrett suggested that the Trump's exit form JCPOA had been under the influence of Israel.

Barret added he believed Trump lacked “the faintest desire or knowledge to try to push through any particular Iran deal.Trump is just a creature of narcissism and ego," the American scholar said.

"Fortunately, I think Iran is run by people who are a lot smarter than Donald Trump and they realize that they are actually in a favorable position long-term due to the short-term orientation and immense stupidity of the leadership in Washington,' he concluded.