Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened cabinet rivals on Monday for their first discussion of Israeli strategy against the Iranian nuclear programme since U.S. President Joe Biden took office pledging to pursue diplomacy with Tehran.
Netanyahu’s meeting with Defence Minister Benny Gantz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi followed his first phone call with the U.S. leader last week, and came a month before Israel holds another election triggered by coalition infighting.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened cabinet rivals on Monday for their first discussion of Israeli strategy against the Iranian nuclear programme since U.S. President Joe Biden took office pledging to pursue diplomacy with Tehran. https://t.co/S5AerSpYWk— Parisa Hafezi (@PHREUTERS) February 22, 2021
Israeli officials said the conservative Netanyahu, bracing for discord with Biden’s Democratic administration on Iran, wanted to present a united front with the centrist Gantz and Ashkenazi.
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