Joe Biden said that on the opening day of his first trip to the Middle East as US President, he would use military violence against Iran to prevent its regime from acquiring nuclear weapons.
he rejected Tehran's demand to delete his Corps of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) of Washington's list of foreign terrorist organizations, even if this was destroying his hopes for an nuclear agreement with Iran.
In an interview with the Israeli broadcaster N12 On Wednesday evening, Mr. Biden was asked whether he was ready to use violence to prevent the acquisition of nuclear weapons from Iran.
"If that was the last way out, yes," he replied. "Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon."
Mr. Biden, however, said that he was still determined to revive the nuclear deal with Iran from 2018, although the hopes for an agreement in Washington will disappear, since the Islamic regime made rapid progress in the development of its nuclear program.
"The only thing that is worse than Iran, which now exists, is an Iran with nuclear weapons," said Biden.
The comments came at the beginning of a high-ranking visit to the Middle East for Mr. Biden, who was dominated by politically dangerous efforts to stop the nuclear ambitions of Iran, to confirm the support for a two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to accelerate Saudi Arabia's oil production.
Mr. Biden hopes that the trip will strengthen his efforts to reverse its domestic approval rates, which have remained terribly low in view of increasing gas prices.
relationship between the USA and Israel "deeper than the bones"
The US leader opened his visit to the region with the explanation that the relationship between the USA and Israel was "deeper than the bones" when he arrived in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
he also confirmed the wish of the United States that has been stalled since 2014 after negotiations on the Palestinian independence in the area occupied by Israel and called this two-state solution "The Best Hope".
Israel and the United States were temporarily shared by the Iranian nuclear diplomacy and the prospects for a Palestinian self -state.
But in a welcoming speech, Yair Lapid, the Israeli Prime Minister, called Mr. Biden "one of the best friends that Israel has ever known".