The president of United States, Joe Biden and its prime minister Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu spoke for the first time on the phone after seven weeks and more specifically after August 21st.

According to the White House, US Vice President Kamala Harris also participated in the telephone conversation, while, according to the office of the Israeli Prime Minister, the duration of the conversation was 45 minutes.

Right now, Israel has expanded its ground operations deeper into Lebanon and is considering how to respond to Iran’s October 1 retaliation against Israeli soil with 180 ballistic missiles.

For its part, what Washington seeks, as political analysts report, is to moderate the intensity of the imminent Israeli response against Tehran. However, to what extent her efforts will be crowned with success remains – for now – unknown.

Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly ignored (and) American calls for a cease-fire in the past, and there has also been an article in the American newspaper Wall Street Journal, in which there was talk of Washington’s irritation with the reluctance of the Israelis so far to reveal their plans for retaliation against Iran, revealing, at the same time, the background to Washington’s “surprise” over Nasrallah’s assassination.

The spokeswoman for the White House, Karin Jean-Pierre, in the briefing to journalists, spoke this time of a productive discussion between the two sides, noting – without going into details – that the issue of Israeli retaliation was on the table.

After all, on Tuesday night o Benjamin Netanyahu he had long hours of meetings with his ministers, with Israel’s military leadership and with the heads of the country’s secret services, to decide when and how Tel Aviv would react. A little earlier, it was known that barred Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallad from traveling to Washington to meet with his American counterpart, Lloyd Austin.

Tel Aviv is promising a tough response against Iran, with Israel’s defense minister on Wednesday night speaking of retaliation that would be “deadly, expensive and full of surprises”.

According to an Associated Press analyst, the Israelis “are believed to be considering a number of options. These range from more limited strikes against targets such as Iranian military or government facilities to more serious operations against Iran’s vital oil industry or even against its top-secret nuclear facilities.”

For its part, Iran has declared that if it receives a blow it will respond.

Today the Israeli security cabinet is expected to meet which, as the Axios platform also notes, based on the Israeli constitution must first vote before Tel Aviv carries out such an important military operation, which can lead the Middle East to a more nightmarish conflagration and in a generalized war.

Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has confirmed that the Israeli Prime Minister has also recently spoken with former US President Donald Trump. In fact, according to the relevant announcement, the Republican presidential candidate called the Israeli prime minister last week to congratulate him “on Israel’s fierce and decisive operations against Hezbollah.”