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News Topical, Digital Desk : Former Secretary of State John Kerry said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had also proposed war with Iran to former US presidents, but they all rejected it.
Speaking on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,' Kerry said, "Obama declined. Bush declined. President Biden declined. I mean, I was part of those conversations."
Obama, Bush, and Biden disagreed on war with Iran.
The former US official said that previous US presidents did not agree to go to war with Iran because they had not fully exhausted all avenues of a peaceful process. He argued that both the Vietnam and Iraq wars share a common lesson. A lesson he knows firsthand as a Vietnam War veteran: the American public should not be deceived.
"And as a veteran of the Vietnam War, where decisions like this were incredibly important, we were lied to about what that war was about, and the lesson learned from that war and the Iraq War is don't lie to the American people and then ask them to send their sons and daughters to fight," he said.
Iran shared the video
Sharing this clip of Kerry, Iran's Press TV wrote, “Former US Secretary of State John Kerry says that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu proposed waging war on Iran to Presidents Obama, Bush and Biden, but they all rejected it. He expected that this would lead to a regime change and people would revolt, but we saw that nothing like that happened.”
How did Netanyahu persuade Trump?
A New York Times report detailed how Netanyahu persuaded US President Donald Trump to attack Iran in collaboration with Israel.
"Netanyahu made his case forcefully in the Situation Room on February 11. He suggested that the time was right for regime change in Iran and expressed confidence that a joint US-Israeli operation could ultimately end the 'Islamic Republic,'" the report said.
According to the report, Trump said, "That sounds fine to me," and then gave the green light to the joint US-Israeli operation.
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