Qatar tried lobbying for Iran during wartime

The Washington Post reported June 12 that Qatar was trying to talk with the United States secretly on behalf of Iran to end the war in its opening weeks. Citing “Middle Eastern security officials and Western officials briefed on the intelligence,” the Washington Post claims Qatar offered to lobby U.S. President Donald Trump to call the war off early if Iran refrained from attacking its Ras Laffan natural gas complex. Iran attacked the complex anyway, but this is another example of how a country the U.S. sees as an important ally actually supports terrorism.