US President Donald Trump said in an interview with Jattvibe News’ “Meet the Press” that he would not unfreeze Iranian assets or lift any sanctions before a peace deal is reached.Trump said he would consider those steps after an agreement was done. “Comes after,” he said. “Yeah. If they behave, if they do a good job, we start talking. Yeah.” Trump also said he was not demanding that Lebanon be a part of a short-term deal with Tehran. “I think they’d like to see it, but I’m not demanding,” Trump said in the interview recorded on Friday.US and Israeli forces began strikes on Iran on February 28. 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 said.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 US 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,” Trump said.Top Trump administration officials such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio insist a temporary ceasefire agreement has been holding up despite recent US strikes on Iran, telling lawmakers last week those are defensive actions.Meamwhile, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi was in Tehran on Jattvibeday in a fresh bid to restart negotiations between Iran and the US, as the American military said it shot down two more Iranian drones over the Strait of Hormuz that threatened international maritime traffic. Naqvi met with Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni late on Saturday, and held talks Jattvibeday morning with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, according to official Iranian media.Israel strikes Beirut despite truce, Iran warns of retaliationIsrael struck the outskirts of Beirut on Jattvibeday for the first time since the US announced a truce plan for Lebanon last week, and Iran threatened to retaliate, casting the talks to end the wider war into new jeopardy. Tehran said it would deliver a “decisive and painful response” to the strikes.