India, March 25 -- As US President Donald Trump moves towards a ceasefire with Iran after four weeks of fighting, an interview from 1988 has resurfaced, echoing the President's sentiments towards Tehran and how it "must pay."

With the US-Israel war on Iran now in its fourth week, Washington is setting the stage for talks with Tehran. A 15-point peace plan has been sent by the US to Iran through Pakistan, which has offered to mediate in order to bring the ongoing conflict to an end.

Amid this ceasefire push, an interview with The Guardian in 1988 and a $95,000 advertisement placed in leading American newspapers in 1987 have resurfaced.

A full-page advertisement placed by Trump in 1987, published in The New York Times, Washington Post an...