vosizneias.com- Israel asked the United States to bomb Iran when Barack Obama served as president, former Secretary of State John Kerry said during a conversation he held in London in Chatham House this week about the nuclear threat posed by Tehran.

�Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu was urging President [Barack] Obama to bomb Iran,� Kerry said but did not clarify when that request was made.

�Every leader I met with in the region � [including former Egyptian president Hosni] Mubarak, personally, to my face, said �you have to bomb Iran, that is the only thing they understand and that is the only way you will stop them having a nuclear weapon�,� Kerry recalled.

But Kerry expressed his doubts over this widely-shared notion, saying that �Bombing Iran does not necessarily stop them from having a nuclear weapon. It is the same dilemma that we face with North Korea. We do not know where everything is.�

At the time that the nuclear deal was put in place, Iran did not have a nuclear weapon, Kerry continued.

�I guarantee you, once you bomb the country, you have surely [sic] given them a good reason to want to have a weapon,� the ex-Secretary of State asserted.