US President Joe Biden has launched meticulous, wide-ranging preparations as the groundwork for renewed nuclear talks with Iran. Tehran is meanwhile keeping up its military momentum. Foreign Minister Gaby Ashkenazi said on Tuesday, March 2, that Israel and the US had agreed that neither would act on the nuclear issue without notifying the other. He added that the Americans had shown no signs of rushing into an agreement with Iran and he hoped this would not happen. The minister made those remarks in a briefing by Zoom to Israel’s diplomatic envoys in East Asia and the Pacific after he had conducted a “good conversation” with Secretary of State Antony Blinken.