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2023-05-24T14:09:36.543Z

Highlights: According to four senior Israeli and American officials, the two are expected to meet with U.S. National Security Adviser Sullivan. Concerns about progress in Tehran's nuclear program, efforts to achieve normalization with Saudi Arabia, the legal revolution, and the issue of Netanyahu's invitation to a meeting with Biden will come up in the talks. A senior Iranian official quoted by Al Jazeera on Tuesday said that if Israel attacked Iran's nuclear facilities, it would be responsible for a full-scale war.


According to four senior Israeli and American officials, the two are expected to meet with U.S. National Security Adviser Sullivan. Concerns about progress in Tehran's nuclear program, efforts to achieve normalization with Saudi Arabia, the legal revolution, and the issue of Netanyahu's invitation to a meeting with Biden are expected to come up in the talks


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Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi are expected to travel to Washington next week to hold talks with senior White House officials, sources told Walla! Four senior Israeli and American officials.

Why it's important:

  • The two main issues the two are expected to discuss with their American counterparts are Israel's growing concern over progress in Iran's nuclear program, and American efforts to promote a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

News Focus:

  • Dermer and Hanegbi are expected to arrive in Washington late next week and meet with President Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, and other senior White House and State Department officials, the Israeli and U.S. officials said.
  • A senior official in the Prime Minister's Office said the date of the trip had not yet been finalized. The White House said: "We have nothing to say at this time."

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Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer (Photo: GettyImages)

National Security Council head Tzachi Hanegbi alongside US Security Adviser Sullivan. January 2023 (Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shlomi Amsalem / Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Snapshot:

  • In recent days, senior Israeli officials have stepped up their public statements about Tehran's nuclear program and the possibility that Israel will carry out military action against Iran's nuclear facilities.
  • IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevy said Tuesday that Israel is monitoring not only Iran's uranium enrichment but also other areas critical to Iran's nuclear program — a reference to Iran's efforts to develop a nuclear warhead.
  • "There are possible negative developments on the horizon that could bring action. We have capabilities and others have capabilities as well," the chief of staff said.
  • Hanegbi also addressed the issue yesterday, saying that although Israel hopes that the Iranian nuclear issue can be resolved by non-military means, "we are preparing for a situation in which there will be no escape from confrontation."

The other side:

A senior Iranian official quoted by Al Jazeera on Tuesday said that if Israel attacked Iran's nuclear facilities, it would be responsible for a full-scale war. "We are not calling for war, but the world needs to know that we will not have red lines in response to an Israeli attack," he said.

"We won't have red lines." A uranium enrichment facility near the city of Natanz in Iran (Photo: AP, Hasan Sarbakhshian)

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Backstage:

  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his advisers want to work with the Biden administration to try to reach a peace agreement with Saudi Arabia. Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer is leading the discussion on behalf of the Prime Minister.
  • Last week it was reported in Walla! Because the White House intends to invest diplomatic efforts to reach a peace agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia by the end of the year, before the US presidential campaign takes over President Biden's agenda.

The big picture:

  • Five months after Benjamin Netanyahu entered the Prime Minister's Office, he has not yet received an invitation to meet with President Biden at the White House. This is a highly unusual case in relations between Israel and the United States.
  • President Biden said at the end of March that he would not invite Netanyahu to the White House in the near future, and in the same breath called on the prime minister to "back down" from his plan to weaken the judicial system.
  • Netanyahu and his advisers hope that the suspension of legislation on the judiciary and the negotiations taking place at the president's residence with opposition representatives will lead to the prime minister receiving an invitation to meet with Biden.
  • However, U.S. officials say the White House still wants to wait and see where the talks go at the president's residence before making a decision on whether to invite Netanyahu to a meeting with the president.
  • The issue is also expected to come up in Dermer and Hanegbi's conversations with Biden's advisers.
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  • Ron Dermer
  • Tzachi Hanegbi
  • Saudi arabia
  • Iran
  • Joe Biden
  • United States
  • Benjamin Netanyahu

Source: walla

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