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Trump Won't Unfreeze Iranian Assets or Lift Sanctions Until Deal Completed 32%
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6/7/2026, 1:51:40 PM
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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.
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."
Trump also said that he was not demanding that ‌Lebanon be a part of a short-term deal ‌with Tehran.
Trump said the United States would work with Iran to secure and destroy its stockpile of highly enriched uranium if the two countries reach an agreement to end the conflict that began three months ago.
He said that, absent a deal, the U.S. would continue military operations against Iran and would seek to secure the material after degrading Iran’s military capabilities.
“If we make a deal that now we’re friendly, we’ll all go together.
It’ll be our equipment.
We’ll take it out and destroy it,” Trump said in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
Trump said the United States would proceed with or without Iran’s cooperation but added that U.S. personnel would not operate in areas where they were under attack.
He said military action would continue if an agreement is not reached.
Trump also said the United States has the capability to monitor Iran’s nuclear facilities using space-based surveillance technology.
In the NBC interview, Trump said the two sides are “very close” to an agreement but that he is seeking additional language to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons through purchase or acquisition, in addition to prohibiting domestic development.
“We have a couple of points,” Trump said.
“They’ve conceded the fact that they will not have nuclear weapons.”
Trump said Iranian officials initially objected to the proposed language but later dropped their opposition.
He also said he views Iran’s new leadership as “more rational” following military strikes by Israel and the United States that he said killed former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several senior officials.
Trump said Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, is involved in discussions surrounding a potential agreement and that he would be open to speaking with him directly.
Trump described Mojtaba Khamenei as younger and more pragmatic than his father and said he had been seriously injured.
Trump declined to say whether he knows the Iranian leader’s current location but said there is “a good probability” that he does.
The U.S. also will attempt to redirect Iranian assets to Gulf states for rebuilding and repairs of damage caused by Iran, a source familiar with the matter said, as Tehran followed up a wave of strikes against Kuwait and Bahrain with further drone launches.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has directed a team to assess costs for ‌damage inflicted on Gulf allies by Iran, the source said on Saturday, adding the U.S. will consider using Iranian assets for repairs of any future destruction as well.
The disclosure came a day after Mohsen Rezaei, an adviser to Iran's supreme leader, told CNN that a peace deal to end the three-month-old war hinged on the release of $24 billion in Iranian assets frozen by the United States.
NEGOTIATIONS APPEAR STALLED
The source did not specify what kind of assets the Treasury was examining.
The language used to describe the new measures did not appear limited to frozen assets.
The threat to redirect Iranian assets could create a new irritant to a fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran, which was tested again this weekend with strikes by both nations.
Peace negotiations appear to have stalled, although a minister from mediator Pakistan traveled to Tehran on Saturday with a letter for Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency reported.
U.S. forces struck Iranian coastal radar sites in Goruk and Qeshm Island, both in the Strait of Hormuz, early on Saturday after shooting down drones launched by Iran that U.S.
Central Command says posed a threat to maritime ‌traffic.
Two more Iranian attack drones that were threatening shipping in the strait were shot down, the U.S. military said late on Saturday.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said it retaliated against ‌U.S. bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, and Kuwait's army said it engaged seven ballistic missiles that passed over residential areas, resulting in material damage but no casualties.
In Bahrain, sirens sounded and residents were urged to seek shelter.
Kuwait and Bahrain condemned the strikes.
Iran ‌later said it had hit U.S. bases in both countries with ballistic missiles, but the U.S. military said six missiles were intercepted and a seventh did not reach its target.
OPEC+ EYES ANOTHER OUTPUT HIKE, BUT WAR THWARTS SHIPMENTS
The U.S. and Iran have engaged in largely indirect negotiations for an interim deal to halt the three-month-old war that would leave issues including Iran's nuclear program ‌to further negotiations.
But a deal has remained elusive while the two sides have periodically skirmished.
Tehran wants access to billions of dollars in oil revenue, waivers on sanctions on crude exports, the lifting of a U.S. blockade on its ports and leverage over the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has effectively blocked the waterway, where about a fifth of global oil traffic transited before the war.
President Donald Trump is facing mounting domestic political pressure due to rising gas prices to bring the unpopular war to an end.
He told NBC that ‌while most of Iran's drone and missile manufacturing facilities had been destroyed, the Iranians still had access to about a fifth of their missiles.
"They have some missiles, they have some drones.
I would say percentage wise, maybe 21% to 22% of their missiles.
It's a lot of missiles, but it's not what it was when we first attacked," Trump told ‌NBC News' "Meet the Press" program, according to excerpts released by the network on ‌Friday.
The conflict has driven up oil prices and fueled inflation around the globe.
OPEC+ is set to agree on Sunday a fourth increase in oil output targets in as many months, three sources in the oil-producing group said, even though the war is still preventing several of the group's members from pumping more.
Israel's military said on Sunday it had intercepted two projectiles that crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon.
The attempted attack came a day after Lebanon said two army officers and a soldier were killed in an Israeli strike on a military vehicle in south Lebanon.
Material from Reuters wire service was used in this story.
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