Israel stands firmly in opposing US President Joe Biden's pledge to rejoin the nuclear deal his country signed with Iran in 2015, before former President Donald Trump withdrew from it in 2018.

American and Iranian negotiators are holding indirect talks for the second week in the Austrian capital, Vienna, to lay out a road map for "mutual compliance" for both parties to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which is the official name of the nuclear agreement that was negotiated during the era of former President Obama when Biden was Vice President. .

The repeated attacks on Iranian targets, which intelligence sources confirmed to the "New York Times" newspaper, that Israel was behind, the most recent on Sunday on the Natanz nuclear facility, and days earlier on the "Soyuz" military ship in the southern Red Sea, represented practical signals To Washington, the size of the Israeli determination to obstruct the diplomatic negotiation process that brings Iran together with the United States and its international partners.

Israel did not officially confirm its part and did not deny its role in any of these attacks, but its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated traditional warnings on Monday in which he said that his country would not hesitate to eliminate Iranian threats.

Netanyahu's words came before his meeting with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who is on a visit to Israel.

Voices in Washington were divided between a team that called for responding to the Israeli attacks by expediting an agreement with Iran, and another team calling for the exploitation of this new reality in order not to return to the nuclear agreement again.

Israel's position is similar to that of the leaders of the Democrats in Congress and the Republicans as well

In an interview with Al-Jazeera Net, David de Roch, a professor of security studies at the National Defense University and a former US military official, pointed out the importance of Israel agreeing to any nuclear agreement between Washington and Tehran if the parties want such an agreement to succeed.

De Roch stated that "this is not due to any malign Israeli influence in the United States, but rather because Israel's fears about the nuclear deal with Iran were genuine concerns reflecting the concerns of many Americans, such as the leaders of the Democrats in the Senate Democrats, Senator Chuck Schumer and Senator Bob Menendez, as well as "Most of the Republican American right at the same time, hence, if an agreement can be concluded that addresses the concerns of Israel, the agreement will also address the concerns of the Gulf Arab states, as well as the vast majority of American public opinion."

However, the American expert pointed out the difficulty of reaching a new agreement satisfactory to all parties, and indicated that he is not optimistic that such an agreement can be reached, and the most likely is to reach some kind of settlement on limited aspects of Iran's nuclear program without clear and specific commitments, and this "These kinds of deals will not satisfy Israel, the Arab Gulf states, or many in America, especially as this is unlikely to lead to broader agreements on regional destabilization by Iran or the Iranian missile program."

Biden advises to return to the nuclear agreement quickly after the Israeli strikes

These Israeli attacks came at a time when American experts warned of "the return of the old anti-agreement coalition with Iran, which includes hawks in Congress from both parties, leaders of Israel and Saudi Arabia, evangelical Christians and hard-line American Jews, who could use their money and influence to pressure the Biden administration." As stated in an article by Joe Sirinción, an expert on disarmament issues, and published by NBC News.

Sirinción believed that Israel was pushing the United States and dragging it towards the path of war and clash with Iran.

Sirincion tweeted, "I agree that Israel has the right to protect itself, but this military action is an attack on a country that is not at war with it. I am sure you will not agree that Iran has the right to attack an Israeli nuclear site if it deems it necessary to protect itself." ".

For her part, Barbara Slavin, an expert in Iranian affairs and director of the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council, expressed the need for Washington and Tehran to respond together to the Israeli attacks by speeding up the return to the nuclear deal.

Slavin said in a tweet that "the best response to the recent Israeli attack on Nzanz is for Iran to sit in Vienna for direct talks with the United States to coordinate a speedy return to mutual compliance with the nuclear agreement."

Calls to use Israel's strikes to strengthen Biden's negotiating position

The opposing forces to start negotiations between Washington and Tehran in order to return to the Iranian nuclear deal expressed their happiness with the news of the Israeli attacks.

Former diplomat Aaron David Miller - who has worked for many years in the files of Middle East issues - said that there is no rush or pressure now to return to the nuclear deal, especially after the publication of news reports indicating that Iran's nuclear program has returned by at least 9 months.

Aaron Miller tweeted, "Anyone who was looking for a quick return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the nuclear deal with Iran) should rest and reflect on the situation now. Regarding Biden, the political risks of not returning to the nuclear agreement in its old form have disappeared."

As for Mark Dubowitz, head of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies that is hostile to the nuclear deal with Iran and calls for a change of government in Tehran instead of sitting down and negotiating with him, he tweeted advising the Biden administration to stop returning to the nuclear deal after the Israeli strikes.

"Instead of succumbing to nuclear blackmail, Biden should tell Ayatollah Khamenei that Washington does not need to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and in the midst of the endless Middle East conflicts this will be a very important next step," he said in a tweet.

Christine Fontenross, a former National Security Council official and expert at the Atlantic Council, emphasized that neither the Iranians nor the Americans should be surprised by such attacks by Israel, which are carried out in order to obstruct Iran's progress in nuclear enrichment.

Christine indicated that Israel has made clear repeatedly that it will act against the Iranian nuclear program in two cases;

The first is to accelerate the pace of Iran's progress in its timetable before it becomes able to manufacture nuclear weapons, and the second is the continuing stalemate over the nuclear agreement between Iran and the United States, "considering that" the two conditions have met together in the past days. "

Christine advised the Iranian leaders to avoid making the mistake of withdrawing from the negotiations taking place in Vienna, and said, "There is one mistake that Iran should not commit now, which is to mix up Israel's attacks with their negotiations with the United States and Europe. This will only serve the Israeli factions that do not support reaching a nuclear agreement." Renewed, and prefers instead to have an excuse to destroy all components of the Iranian nuclear program from the ground up. "