Israeli Prime Minister Former US Secretary of State John Kerry has claimed that three US presidents rejected Benjamin Netanyahu’s long-running push to bomb Iran before finding a willing partner in Donald Trump.
Former US Presidents George W. Bush, The veteran diplomat added that Barack Obama and Joe Biden oppose war with Tehran.
“Obama said no, Bush said no. President Biden said no. “I mean, I was part of those talks,” Kerry said during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, adding that previous administrations had refused to escalate because they had “not exhausted all remedies of the peace process.”
He said that the Trump administration’s decision to abandon the 2015 nuclear agreement (The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the move toward military engagement made war “inevitable” by leaving Iran “without the freedom to move in a different direction.”
The United States’ wars on Vietnam and Iraq
Kerry explained that the decision of previous presidents to avoid confrontation was rooted in lessons learned from past conflicts, including the US wars in Vietnam and Iraq. He said the United States should avoid misleading public opinion before sending troops to war.
“And he speaks like a war veteran Kerry said: “The Vietnam War, where decisions like those were so crucial, we lied about the content of that war, and the lesson learned from that war and Iraq is not to lie to the American people and then ask them to send their sons and daughters to fight.”
He also criticized the logic of the war, saying that it undermined negotiations with Iran. Kerry said the “ultimate outcome” would improve “if neither Iran nor Iran improves.” “Kash Patel is being bombed,” he said, also referring to the recent allegations regarding the FBI director.
“Are these the best ways to negotiate?” – Colbert asked. “No, obviously not,” Kerry said. “No, I think what he is doing now challenges the legality of what he is doing FIFA World Peace Prize.
The Boy Who Cried “Bomb”
Netanyahu has been beating the drum about Iran’s nuclear ambitions for more than three decades. In the early 1990s, he said that Iran might be “three to five years” away from being able to build nuclear weapons. In later years, he claimed that Iran was only “weeks or months” away from building a nuclear bomb.
the The International Atomic Energy Agency and UN inspectors have repeatedly found no evidence that Iran has manufactured or obtained a nuclear weapon. And the 12-day US-Israeli war on Iran last year, and the ongoing war, which began on February 28, showed no signs of a nuclear arsenal.
Netanyahu finds an ally in Trump
Despite previous resistance, Netanyahu found an ally in the current commander-in-chief. At a high-level meeting in the White House Situation Room on February 11, the Israeli prime minister made a “difficult statement,” saying the Islamic Republic was “ready for regime change,” the New York Times reported.
He reportedly said that a joint US-Israeli effort could end Iran. “Sounds good to me,” Trump is said to have responded.
Subsequent assessments reportedly revealed internal disagreements within the US administration. we Axios reported that Vice President J.D. Vance challenged Netanyahu’s assumptions about the possibility of regime change.
“Before the war, Bibi really sold it to the president that it was easy, that regime change was more likely than it had been before,” a US official said. “The vice president was clear about some of those statements.”
