Obama tried to ‘bribe his way out’ of 2015 Iran nuclear deal: Trump

US President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of “bribing” Iran with $1.7bn to agree to the 2015 nuclear agreement.

“The JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] done by Obama - he handed them $1.7bn in cash, green cash from banks, into a Boeing 757 and flew it into Iran. And they stood at the plane. I have pictures of it,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday at the G7 summit.

“He tried to bribe his way out. I didn’t try to do that," Trump said, adding, “His deal was a road to a nuclear weapon. My deal, they can't have a nuclear, they get blown up.”

In 2015, former Obama secured a nuclear deal with Iran in exchange for sanctions relief, a process that took two years to finalise. Trump withdrew the US from that accord during his first term.