President Donald Trump said Monday that he will “hold off” on a Tuesday plan to attack Iran, citing a request from the leaders of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as he said negotiations to end the war grow more “serious.”

The president wrote on social media that he was prepared to attack Iran but was persuaded not to by the United States’s Gulf allies.

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A 'large scale assault' was 'scheduled' for Tuesday, the US president said