US President Donald Trump with Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani at the White House regarding the ongoing talks to end the conflict in Iran.
Monday’s meeting marks an important development in the closely watched talks between the two warring sides. Qatar would rather see a peaceful solution. Qatar, a key mediator in the talks alongside Pakistan, presented the US with an Iranian proposal on its nuclear program on Thursday, October 5. Earlier, Barak Ravid of Axios reported that a diplomat briefed on the 45-minute meeting between Trump and Sheik Mohammad said that they were “positive.
After the meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed of Qatar, Trump said that Qatar and Saudi Arabia want a peaceful solution to the conflict, but added that the US is “ready to go anytime we want,” indicating that future US strikes are not entirely off the cards. Saudi Arabia would also rather see a peaceful solution,” Trump said, adding that the US is “ready to go anytime we want.”
