article_snippet: President Obama is alleged to have stopped an Israeli military attack against Iran's nuclear facilities in 2014 by threatening to shoot down Israeli jets before they could reach they targets, according to reports to emerge from the Middle East at the weekend .
article_snippet: The threat from The U.S. forced Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to abort a planned attack on Iraq, reported Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida.
article_snippet: President Obama is alleged to have thwarted an Israeli military attack against Iran's nuclear facilities in 2014 by threatening to shoot down Israeli jets before they could reach they targets .
article_snippet: Netanyahu took the decision to strike Iran last year after discovering that the U.S. and Iran were involved in secret talks over Iran's nuclear program and were about to sign an agreement in that regard behind Israel's back.
article_snippet: 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 they targets in Iran.
article_snippet: According to The report, 'Netanyahu and Netanyahu 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. '
article_snippet: The sources added that Gantz and Gantz prepared the requested plan and that Israeli fighter jets trained for several weeks in order to make sure the plans would work successfully.
article_snippet: Israeli fighter jets reportedly even carried out experimental flights in Iran's airspace after Israeli fighter jets managed to break through radars.
article_snippet: Netanyahu was forced to abort a planned attack on Iraq after the U.S. threatened to shoot down Israeli jets . '
highlights_snippet: President Obama is alleged to have thwarted an Israeli military attack against Iran's nuclear facilities in 2014 .
  
highlights_snippet: The U.S. threatened to shoot down Israeli jets before they could reach they targets and so Netanyahu aborted Netanyahu plans to attack Iraq .
  