The Obama administration says they never ever EVER threatened to shoot down Israeli jets in a plan to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities:
ARUTZ SHEVA – In a statement to The Washington Times early Sunday evening, a senior Obama administration official said that a Kuwaiti report, cited by Arutz Sheva, that President Obama threatened to shoot down a possible IAF attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities are “totally false.”
On Sunday, Arutz Sheva quoted the Bethlehem-based Palestinian news service Ma’an, which quoted a Kuwaiti newspaper – Al-Jarida – as saying that President Obama threatened, last year, to use the US military to shoot down Israeli fighter jets if they attempted to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities.
The Obama Administration, according to the Washington Times, “denounced” the Al-Jarida story later Sunday as “flatly untrue.”
Of course they wouldn’t admit this. But then neither would Netanyahu. This story was never destined to be anything more than a ‘report’ because it stood on such a weak source, one out of Kuwait.
That said, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the report were true given Obama’s obvious animosity toward Netanyahu, something Obama has demonstrated in boat loads these past few months in an effort to protect it’s nuclear deal with Iran.
We also know that the Obama administration leaked information about an Israeli plan to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities in the past, when Israel was going to use Azerbaijan as a staging ground.
The bottom line is that there are plenty of reasons to believe a report like this is true. But we’ll probably never know the truth on it unless someone from the administration or Netanyahu’s inner circle decides to leak more information about it. And I’m betting that’s just not going to happen.