Pool report #1 - Business roundtable in Doha // Remarks on Iran

Good morning. I'll have the pleasure to serve as your pooler on this busy day, that starts in Qatar and will end in Abu Dhabi, for the last leg of the President's Gulf visit.

At 9:43 the pool was led into a conference room at the St Regis Hotel.

POTUS, seated at a large square table, was already chatting with other attendees as we came in and then started his remarks by touting a "very special trip".

On Iran, he noted: "So we'll see what happens but we're in very serious negotiations with Iran for long term peace"

"Iran has sort of agreed to the terms" he noted.

"We're getting close to maybe doing a deal"

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Aurelia End

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