From different directions…
Iran has been trying to get a nuclear bomb for some time….
Nobody wants them to….
President Obama worked on negotiating a way to drop economic sanctions in exchange for the shut down of the nuclear bomb effort…
President Trump wanted no part of that….
Partnering up with the Israeli’s…
He took a hardline against the Iranians …
They in turn backed away from talks….
And resumed trying to develop a bomb…
But?
The Israeli’s have made sure Iran does not make much progress ….
They have used ‘any’ means they can….
Including blowing up Iranian bomb sites and ‘taking out’ some of the people who are working on the program…
Some Americans feel this is actually counter productive in the long run…
President Biden , as with Afghanistan and the Ukraine….
Is not comfortable with hardline policy….
But Israel , which is closer to the issue is…
And they will NOT stop checkmating the Iranian effort which they seem to have penetrated covertly…
Biden, who was lied to by Israeli’s on their settlement moves back while he was a Vice President and who comes in behind a Trump/Netanyahu bromance is being dragged into Israeli’s moves no matter with their ‘take no prisoners’ moves…
The ‘way’ for the American President seems to be pitting an American President AGAINST Israel….
And Joe Biden probably does NOT, in his heart trust the country that lied to him back in the day over the settlements….
Biden wants to talk and make a deal…
Israel wants NOT…
They do NOT trust the Iranians…
And they , like others , keep seeing images of the Afghan evacuation…..
And are dealing with a President who does NOT like to use American power and maybe actually talking around the Israeli’s….
Both countries are gonna too ‘have too ‘ find a way’ post Donald Trump…..
This IS important on many levels…
Not just Iran…
Long-running differences over how to deal with Iran’s nuclear program have erupted into new tensions between the Biden administration and Israel, with two senior Israeli officials leaving Washington this week concerned that the Americans’ commitment to restoring the 2015 nuclear deal will lead to a flawed agreement allowing Tehran to speed ahead with its nuclear enrichment program.
The strains were evident all week, as the Biden administration sought to bring the alliance with Israel into a united front about how to deal with Iran over the next year.
In an effort to close the gap, American officials let out word this week that two months ago, Mr. Biden asked his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, to review the Pentagon’s revised plan to take military action if the diplomatic effort collapsed. Administration officials also outlined new efforts to tighten, rather than loosen, sanctions on Iran…
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But the tougher line was also aimed at calming increasingly frustrated Israeli officials. Though they will not criticize the American president in public the way former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did during the Obama administration, Israeli officials in private argue that the Iranians are advancing their nuclear program while betting that the United States, eager to diminish American commitments in the Middle East, will not abandon the Vienna talks for more forceful action.
This article is based on discussions with more than a dozen American and Israeli officials who spoke on the condition they be granted anonymity to discuss both sensitive matters of diplomacy and classified intelligence assessments.
After a tense phone call with Mr. Blinken 10 days ago, the Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, dispatched his defense minister, Benny Gantz, and the new head of the Mossad, David Barnea, to Washington this week armed with new intelligence about Iranians’ uranium enrichment and the work of what Israel says is their weapons group. Despite the tougher American talk, Israeli officials left worried that the diplomatic outreach to Iran would continue.
The disagreement over Iran is just one of several issues troubling the Biden-Bennett relationship. The pair started off on a strong footing: Mr. Biden spoke with Mr. Bennett within hours after the Israeli leader took office in June — a signal of support given that Mr. Biden had taken weeks after his inauguration to speak directly with Mr. Bennett’s predecessor, Mr. Netanyahu….
image….The Times of Isreal/Israeli PM Bennett/Pres Biden