U.S. rejected Israeli plea to attack Iran

The government of Israel presented several request to President Bush last year for weapons and permission for an airstrike inside Iran all of which were denied. The author of an investigation report told CNN. Although the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, maintains Iran's nuclear program is only intended for peaceful purposes. In early 2008 Israel went to the White House with three requests to attack the main nuclear complex in Iran. Israel wanted the United States to supply specialized bunker-busting bombs, equipment to help refuel planes making flights into Iran and permission to fly over Iraq to reach the major nuclear complex. This is the site of Iran's only known uranium enrichment plant. The first two appeals went unanswered and the last was denied. The Bush administration rejected the request because it feared that the Iran government would expel American Troops if they helped Israel strike Iran using Iraqi airspace. So instead Bush persuaded Israeli officials by sharing with them some details of U.S. operations aimed at sabotaging Iran’s nuclear weapons program. President Obama has now inherited this problem and the operations that the Bush administration has led to disrupt Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Obama stated in his first post-election news conference that nuclear-armed Iran would be "unacceptable." He also said he would help mount an international effort to prevent it from happening. Iran upholds its nuclear program is for energy purposes only. The Israeli government has said it will not rule out military action to stop Iran's nuclear ambition.