ATTACK ON IRAN

In an admission he said could only be published after his death, former Israeli president Shimon Peres said in 2014 he personally stopped Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from attacking Iran.

“I stopped Netanyahu from attacking Iran,” Peres told Steve Linde, then-editorin-chief of the Jerusalem Post, during an Aug. 24, 2014 conversation, the newspaper reported. When pressed, he added, “I don’t want to go into details, but I can tell you that he was ready to launch an attack and I stopped him. I told him the consequences would be catastrophic.”

It is not known what kind of action Netanyahu may have been planning, but it presumably would have been a limited strike similar to Operation Opera, a surprise 1981 Israeli airstrike on Iraqi nuclear facilities.