The United States and Iran meet again for nuclear talks, while Israel looks closely

While Iran and the United States gathered on Saturday for diplomatic interviews on the nuclear activities of Tehran, little will observe the result as closely as Israel.

Israel has long relied on President Trump to take a hard line against Iran, who called for the destruction of the Jewish state. And during his first mandate, he did it, ordering the murder of a senior Iranian security official, the economy of devastating teheran with American sanctions and the abandonment of an international agreement limiting the Iranian nuclear program.

But now, while Mr. Trump is resisting a new war in the Middle East, he tried a more measured approach.

Although the specter of military action remains – “If we have to do something very hard, we will do it,” said Trump last week – he advanced negotiations and would have asked Israel not to attack Iranian nuclear sites.

Trump’s chief environments at talks Steve Witkoff also sent mixed signals to what the United States wants. During last week, he went to suggest that Iran could have a limited nuclear program to say that Iran had to dismantle it fully.

On Friday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that any agreement should prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon. “It must be something that not only prevents Iran from having a nuclear weapon now, but also in the future,” he told journalists during a trip to Paris.