US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett - in their first meeting - at the White House today, Friday, searched for common ground on Iran, while Biden seeks to deal with the repercussions of targeting Kabul Airport.

After the meeting was postponed from Thursday to Friday, following the double attack that ISIS claimed responsibility for, which killed at least 170 people, including 13 American soldiers;

Biden and Bennett met to reshape the parameters of US-Israeli relations and reduce sharp differences over the Iranian file.

The US president said that his country's relationship with Israel is at its best.

Tensions complicated relations between former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - who was close to former US President Donald Trump - and the previous Democratic administration led by former President Barack Obama, of whom Biden was his deputy at the time.

But the meeting - the first since the two men took office this year - was overshadowed by an attack on Thursday outside Kabul airport during the US withdrawal process that caused the biggest crisis for Biden's presidency.

Biden said he and Bennett discussed "the threat from Iran and our commitment to ensuring that Iran never develops a nuclear weapon."

"We are putting diplomacy first, and we will see where it leads. But if diplomacy fails, we are ready to resort to other options," he added.

Without going into specifics about those options.

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A senior administration official had said that Biden would tell Bennett that he shared Israel's concern about Iran's expansion of its nuclear program, but was currently committed to a diplomatic approach to dealing with it, although negotiations are still pending.

Bennett made it clear to reporters that he agreed with Biden that there are other options if US negotiations with Iran fail.

But he also did not mention the nature of those options.

Bennett has sought to distance himself from Netanyahu's aggressive style, focusing instead on managing disputes behind closed doors.

But he was as firm as Netanyahu in his pledge to do whatever was necessary to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

Iran has consistently denied that it is seeking a nuclear bomb.