US President Joe Biden reiterated his country’s “steadfast commitment” to Israel’s security after talks with Prime Minister Yair Lapid in Jerusalem on Thursday, with an eye on the potential nuclear threat posed by Iran. “The United States stresses that integral to this pledge is the commitment never to allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon,” read a joint statement issued by Biden and Lapid, adding that the US was prepared to use “all elements of its national power” to this end. While Biden stressed that diplomacy was the best way of achieving this goal, Lapid said after their talks that only …