Trump says Iran standoff should end 'peacefully, not horribly'

"It's their decision, because we want to see Iran do well and thrive and be successful and everybody be happy," US President Donald Trump said at a state dinner in Doha alongside Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani. "We want to have this end peacefully, not horribly."

"We're going to try and get it done. They have to move quickly ... in a certain sense, I guess I'm a good friend (to Iran), because a lot of people would rather have me take a much more harsh road. But I know that if we can avoid that road, that would be a great thing."

Trump addressed the Qatari emir and said, “I hope you can help me with the Iran situation. It’s a perilous situation, and we want to do the right thing."

"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. 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.”