VIDEO | US President Donald Trump claimed Washington would maintain the current status quo with Iran and hold off on further military strikes at the request of regional allies, including Qatar and Saudi Arabia, following a meeting with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani at the White House on Monday. “For now, we are keeping it at the status quo at the behest of the countries that are their neighbors (Qatar, Saudi Arabia),” Trump said, adding that Iran had supposedly “killed 75,000 protesters at minimum,” and describing the country as a “nasty place.” Asked why US citizens should believe his latest claim that the war would end soon after making similar claims over the past eight months, Trump responded that his commitment had been to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. “No, I made the claim that they won't have a nuclear weapon, and they won't have a nuclear weapon,” he said.