Trump urges Qatar to help negotiations with Iran

President Trump appealed to the leaders of Qatar to “help” with getting Iran to agree to denuclearize, as the fifth round of discussions are said to be held Friday.

Mr. Trump said Wednesday that there are only “two courses” to dealing with Iran’s nuclear program.

“There aren’t three or four or five, there’s two. There’s a friendly and a non-friendly,” he said at a state dinner in Qatar. “The non-friendly is a violent [path]. I don’t want that.”

The president said Qatar has been “working with us very closely with respect to negotiating a deal with Iran,” but said Iran “has to get moving.”

“I hope the Iranian leaders understand that what you’re doing for them is a big favor. Your prime minister, your great leader right here on my left has been helping so much, and they respect them, and they listen to them,” Mr. Trump said.

“They have to get moving … It’s their decision, because we want to see Iran do well and thrive and be successful and everybody be happy,” the U.S. leader said.

He called the situation with Iran “perilous.”

“We want to do it — something that’s going to save maybe millions of lives, because things like that get started and they get out of control,” Mr. Trump said. “I’ve seen it over and over again. They go to war and things get out of control, and we’re not going to let that happen.”

The U.S. and Iran concluded the fourth round of negotiations on Sunday in Oman, which has been the main mediator. The talks took about three hours and Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei called the talks “difficult but useful.”

An agreement was made to move forward with the talks, with the next round planned for Istanbul on Friday. The president maintains that Iran can’t have nuclear weapons.

Mr. Trump said he wants this all to “end peacefully, not horribly.”