Trump indicated that he might consider these actions following the conclusion of a deal. “Comes after,” he remarked. “Yeah. If they behave, if they do a good job, we start talking. Yeah.”
Trump also clarified that he is not insisting on Lebanon’s inclusion in a short-term arrangement with Tehran.
“I think they’d like to see it, but I’m not demanding,” Trump expressed during the interview recorded on Friday.
US and Israeli forces initiated strikes on Iran on February 28. The Trump administration has been engaged in negotiations for a potential peace deal for several weeks. “We’re very close to a deal, or I’m going to blow the hell out of them,” Trump conveyed to NBC News.
The president also expressed his willingness to communicate with Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who has been absent from public view since sustaining injuries from US strikes at the onset of the conflict.
“I don’t want to say whether or not I know where he is, but there’s a good probability that I do,” Trump commented.
Key officials from the Trump administration, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, maintain that a temporary ceasefire agreement has endured despite recent US strikes on Iran, assuring lawmakers last week that these actions are defensive in nature.
