The Bethlehem-based news agency Ma’an
has cited a Kuwaiti newspaper report Saturday, that US President Barack Obama
thwarted an Israeli military attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2014
by threatening to shoot down Israeli jets before they could reach their targets
in Iran.
Following Obama’s threat, Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was reportedly forced to abort the planned Iran
attack.
According to Al-Jarida, the Netanyahu
government took the decision to strike Iran some time in 2014 soon after Israel
had discovered the United States and Iran had been involved in secret talks
over Iran’s nuclear program and were about to sign an agreement in that regard
behind Israel’s back.
The report claimed that an unnamed
Israeli minister who has good ties with the US administration revealed the
attack plan to Secretary of State John Kerry, and that Obama then threatened to
shoot down the Israeli jets before they could reach their targets in Iran.
Al-Jarida quoted “well-placed” sources
as saying that Netanyahu, along with Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon, and
then-Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, had decided to carry out airstrikes
against Iran’s nuclear program after consultations with top security
commanders.
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