By Natalie Andrews
After announcing a three-week extension of the cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon, Trump said in the Oval Office that he planned to work with Lebanon "to get things straightened out," to make it a better country. He said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Joseph Aoun, the president of Lebanon, would be coming to Washington soon.
"It'll be a wonderful thing to get this worked out simultaneously with what we're doing in Iran," he said, flanked by Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other top national security officials.
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