Former President Barack Obama said it seems like the United States has either returned to the status quo or is “worse off” now than before President Donald Trump launched the war on Iran.

In an interview with “TODAY” co-host Craig Melvin, Obama said: “We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. 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.”

The former president noted that under the 2015 deal negotiated during his administration, “Iran had agreed not to develop nuclear weapons.”