Anonymous ID: 0b9ce8 Aug. 26, 2021, 11:21 p.m. No.14471300   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1308 >>1661 >>1893

New Israeli prime minister wants Biden to see Iran deal as ‘no longer relevant’

 

Israel remains America’s closest Middle East ally, but there are likely to be disagreements when Prime Minister Naftali Bennett makes his first visit to the White House on Thursday.

 

The far-right Mr. Bennett, who unseated longtime leader Benjamin Netanyahu in June, said he will encourage President Biden to take a much harder posture toward Iran, Israel‘s archenemy.

 

Biden administration officials say the meeting will show U.S.-Israeli unity, but Mr. Bennett already has made headlines by vowing to press the president to stop trying to revive the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal.

 

“I will tell President Biden that it is time to stop the Iranians … not give them a lifeline in the form of reentering into an expired nuclear deal,” he said at a Cabinet meeting Sunday in Jerusalem.

 

President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Iran deal in 2018. Mr. Biden has spent the past six months trying to revive it, even though Iranian leaders refuse to talk directly with U.S. diplomats.

 

Mr. Bennett told his aides the deal is “no longer relevant, even by the standards of those who once thought that it was,” according to a report by The Times of Israel.

 

The prime minister’s two-day visit to Washington will also include discussions on other fronts.

 

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