Iran live updates: Israel-Lebanon ceasefire extended for 45 days

After two days of talks in Washington, D.C., Israel and Lebanon have extended their ceasefire for 45 days "to enable future progress" in negotiations, the State Department announced Friday.

The talks were "highly productive" and the next round of political negotiations would reconvene on June 2 and 3, spokesperson Tommy Pigott said.

He also announced that a second, security focused track for the talks would be launched through the Pentagon, starting on May 29 and featuring military delegations from both countries.

"We hope these discussions will advance lasting peace between the two countries, full recognition of each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and establishing genuine security along their shared border," Pigott said.

President Donald Trump said that Chinese President Xi Jinping wants to see a deal on Iran and "would love" to help the U.S., Trump told Fox News in an interview in China.

"President Xi would like to see a deal made. He would like to see a deal made. And he did offer, he said, if I can be of any help at all I would like to be of help," Trump told Fox News.

"He'd like to see the Hormuz Strait open. He said if I can be of any help whatsoever I would like to help," Trump said.

Trump said Jinping told him China will not give Iran military equipment.

"But at the same time he said they buy a lot of their oil there and they'd like to keep doing that," Trump said.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. would urge China to take a more assertive role in resolving the Iran conflict during a high stakes meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday.

"It's in their interest to resolve this. We hope to convince them to play a more active role in getting Iran to walk away from what they're doing now and trying to do now in the Persian Gulf," Rubio said during a pre-taped interview with Fox News.

The interview was taped on Air Force One on Tuesday while Rubio and Trump were on their way to Beijing. The interview was released on Wednesday.

"We've made clear to them, you know, that any support for Iran would obviously be detrimental for our relationship. That obviously is going to come up in this conversation," Rubio said.

"Economies are melting down because of this crisis in the Strait," he added. "They're going to be buying less Chinese product and the Chinese exports are going to drop precipitously," Rubio said.

U.S. intelligence has made assessments that Iran has retained significant missile launch capability and access to its stockpile of missiles according to a U.S. official.

That is in line with written testimony the Defense Intelligence Agency provided to Congress weeks ago that Iran still has a significant amount of missiles and drones in the wake of U.S. operations against Iran.

"Iran retains thousands of missiles and one-way attack UAVs that can threaten U.S. and partner forces throughout the region, despite degradations to its capabilities from both attrition and expenditure," Marine Lt. Gen. James Adams wrote in the testimony at the time.

He added that Iran's conventional military remains hampered by aging equipment and limited training, likely pushing Tehran to lean even harder into asymmetric tactics.

Separately, there are internal discussions underway that if the U.S. military resumes combat operations against Iran the name of the mission could shift from "Operation Epic Fury," to Operation Sledgehammer," according to a U.S. official. The Trump administration has previously announced that it considers Operation Epic Fury to have ended.

NBC News was first to report the potential of a name change for the operation should the U.S. resume combat operations against Iran.

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump said the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran "is on massive life support."