U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met British foreign minister David Lammy on Thursday and held separate calls with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot and Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani to discuss the war between U.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Thursday with his U.K. counterpart, Foreign Secretary David Lammy, to discuss the conflict between Iran and Israel. Rubio and Lammy agreed that "Iran can never develop or acquire a nuclear weapon,

Notably absent from Rubio’s statement was any explicit assurance that the U.S. would back Israel if Tehran retaliated—a line that had once been a hallmark of U.S.-Israel policy. Trump, meanwhile, who finds himself increasingly at odds with Netanyahu over Iran and Israel’s conduct in Gaza, is walking a tightrope.