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, according to a Kuwaiti newspaper cited by the
Bethlehem-based news agency Ma’an.
In the wake of Obama’s purported threat, Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was said to be forced to abort the strike on Iran.
Israel National News published an account of the report from Al-Jarida. It said
the Netanyahu government decided to attack Iran “sometime 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 an unnamed Israeli minister who has good
ties with the Obama administration disclosed details of the attack plan to U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry, and that “Obama then threatened to shoot down
the Israeli jets before they could reach their targets in Iran.”
The Kuwaiti paper quoted “well-placed” sources saying
Netanyahu, Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon, and then-Foreign Minister Avigdor
Liberman, chose to hit Iran’s nuclear facilities after discussions 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.”
Israeli
fighter jets trained are said to have trained for several weeks in order to
ensure the plan’s success, even carrying out experimental flights in Iran’s
airspace after they managed to penetrate Iranian radar.
Former U.S. diplomat Zbigniew
Brzezinski, and ardent campaigner for Obama in 2008, called on the president 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.”
During the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel mistakenly attacked
the American ship Liberty.
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Obama is clearly on Iran’s side.
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