U.S. President ​Donald Trump said ‌in a recent ​interview with ⁠NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that he would ‌not unfreeze Iranian assets ‌or lift ‌any ⁠sanctions before a ⁠peace deal is reached.

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Mr. Trump said he ​would ‌consider those steps after an agreement is done. “Comes after,” ‌he said. “Yeah. ​If they behave, if they do ⁠a good job, we start ‌talking. Yeah.”

He also said that he was not demanding that ‌Lebanon be a part ​of a short-term deal with ⁠Tehran

The Trump administration has been trying ​to negotiate a potential peace deal for weeks. “We’re very close to a deal, ⁠or I’m going to blow the hell out of them,” Trump told NBC News.

The president ‌also said he would be willing to speak with Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since being wounded in U.S. strikes at the beginning 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.”

Top Trump administration ⁠officials such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio insist ⁠a temporary ceasefire agreement has been holding up despite recent U.S. strikes on ‌Iran, telling lawmakers last week those are defensive actions.