Beirut, June 4 -- Donald Trump acknowledged criticising Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as "crazy" in a phone call that involved expletives, saying he was "a little bit perturbed" that Israel's fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon was holding back peace talks with Iran. But even as the US president conceded the tensions in an interview released Wednesday, he insisted that his relationship with Netanyahu was solid and that they connected, in part, because they are both "wartime" leaders. "We've worked very well together. I like Bibi a lot. And I work very well with him," Trump told The New York Post's "Pod Force One." The president's comments about the Monday call offered a sign of the growing pressure he faces to resolve the Iran war as higher energy prices and economic uncertainty threaten Republican prospects in the midterm elections and hamper global commerce. Trump remained noncommittal about a timeline for settling the Iran conflict, saying the Strait of Hormuz might stay blocked through the Labor Day holiday on September 7. He has insisted that Iran stop any efforts that could lead to a nuclear weapon and that the strait be reopened for shipments of oil and natural gas. "I don't know. I mean, I think it could be (closed through Labor Day), but I think it's unlikely. I think that we'll have it. I think this will resolve itself fairly quickly," Trump said. Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who succeeded his late father, is "involved" in peace talks, Trump added. "They have a lot of respect for him," the president said in the interview. Trump said that Khamenei is not doing well due to wounds sustained in an airstrike, but "they say he's giving approval because that's the way it has been for a long, long time." Khamenei's father was killed in an airstrike when the US and Israel attacked Iran in February....