LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – An unnamed Israeli minister with good ties with the U.S. administration "revealed the attack plan to John Kerry," according to the newspaper account.The Bethlehem-based news agency Ma’an has cited a Kuwaiti newspaper report this past weekend, President Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli jets before they could reach their targets in Iran.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was then reportedly forced to abort the planned Iran attack.The Netanyahu government decided to strike Iran some time in 2014 after Israel discovered the U.S. and Iran had been involved in secret talks over Iran’s nuclear program and were about to sign an agreement without consulting Israel.

Al-Jarida then quoted "well-placed" sources as saying that Netanyahu, along with Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon, and then-Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, had decided to carry out airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear program after consultations with top security commanders.

 "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," the account reads. "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."

Gantz and his commanders, according to the report, prepared the requested plan and that Israeli fighter jets trained for several weeks. Israeli fighter jets reportedly even carried out experimental flights in Iran’s airspace after they managed to break through radars.

Former U.S. diplomat Zbigniew Brzezinski called on Obama 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?" the former national security advisor said 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.’"