Washington (AP) —President Joe Biden met Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Monday in the midst of great political turmoil in Israel and growing anxiety in Tel Aviv about the efforts of the U.S. government. Re-enter Iran’s nuclear agreement to assure Israel that it will not tolerate nuclear Iran.

Biden said US troops had ordered an airstrike a day ago targeting a facility that was allegedly used by an Iran-backed militia group near the Iraqi-Syrian border. This rhetoric seemed to emphasize that he remained harsh on malicious Iranian activity, even when he was seeking a diplomatic route to thwart Tehran’s nuclear program. ..

“What I can tell you is that Iran never has a nuclear weapon in my watch,” Biden said at the White House conference.

The meeting with the president’s last overseas trip, Librin, took place just weeks after Naftali Bennett replaced Benjamin Netanyahu as the new prime minister of Israel. Meanwhile, the Biden administration has stepped up efforts to revive Iran’s 2015 agreement with world powers that limit Tehran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons. Former President Donald Trump, with Netanyahu’s support, broke the deal in 2018.

Mr Biden said he hopes to meet the new Prime Minister “immediately” at the White House.

Riblin will resign on July 7 after a seven-year term. Former Parliamentarian Isaac Herzog, who recently led a non-profit organization working closely with the government to promote immigration to Israel, becomes president of Israel.

Riblin was also scheduled to meet with Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi late Monday.

Biden said the two would talk about the aftermath of the war with Iran and Gaza. The president also emphasized support for continued normalization of relations between Israel and the countries of the Arab and Islamic world, and the Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system, which was depleted during the 11-day war with Hamas in Gaza. He planned to repeat the government’s promise to replenish. ..

Recent conflicts have killed at least 254 Palestinians and killed 13 in Israel.

Biden has low hopes of reviving peace talks between Israel and Palestinian, at least for now, according to officials familiar with the Biden administration’s deliberations. Officials who discussed private deliberations on condition of anonymity said Biden’s officials began by establishing contact with the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank, which was an eroded relationship during the Trump administration. It was.

The meeting with Librin formed a fragile coalition government against Netanyahu with Benjamin and six other political alliances the day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Israeli Foreign Minister Yale Rapid in Rome.

Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Aviv Kochabi met last week with Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan and other senior national security officials. Kochabi reiterated Israel’s opposition to the Biden administration’s efforts to revive the 2015 agreement.

But government officials say in talks with the new Israeli government, Kochabi and others, it is worth damaging diplomacy, even if it is not guaranteed to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapons system. Officials said they argued.