Bahrain Mirror: Former US Secretary of State John Kerry said during a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference yesterday (February 18, 2018) that the late Saudi King, Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, and ousted Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, asked the United States to bomb Iran.

"Each of them said to me, 'you have to bomb Iran, it's the only thing they are going to understand,'" Kerry stressed. According to the former US official, the discussion took place in September 2013 when a number of countries in the region were increasingly concerned over Iran's nuclear programme.

Kerry added that Washington responded at the time that Tehran had already begun enriching nuclear fuel, and that a military strike will not stop this development.

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