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 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.
According to the report, “Netanyahu
and his commanders agreed after four nights of deliberations to task the
Israeli army's chief of staff, Benny Gantz, to prepare a qualitative operation
against Iran's nuclear program. In addition, Netanyahu and his ministers
decided to do whatever they could do to thwart a possible agreement between
Iran and the White House because such an agreement is, allegedly, a threat to
Israel's SECURITY
.”
The sources added that Gantz and his
commanders prepared the requested plan and that Israeli fighter jets trained
for several weeks in order to make sure the plans would work successfully.
Israeli fighter jets reportedly even carried out experimental flights in Iran's
airspace after they managed to break through radars.
Former US diplomat Zbigniew
Brzezinski, who enthusiastically campaigned for Obama in 2008, called on him to shoot down Israeli planes if they attack Iran. “They have
to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch?”
said the former national security advisor to former President Jimmy
Carter in an interview with the Daily Beast.
“We have to be serious about denying
them that right,” he said. “If they fly over, you go up and confront them. They
have the choice of turning back or not. No one wishes for this but it could be
a 'Liberty' in reverse.’" Israel mistakenly attacked the American Liberty
ship during the Six-Day War in 1967.
Brzezinski was a top candidate to
become an official advisor to President Obama, but he was downgraded after
Republican and pro-Israel Democratic charges during the campaign that
Brzezinski’s anti-Israel attitude would damage Obama at the polls.
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