TEHRAN – Former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry said on Tuesday that leaders of certain Middle East states have asked him and former president Barak Obama to bomb Iran.

He made the remarks in his address to the 15th Annual International Retreat of Mediators and Peace Process Actors in Oslo Forum (June 13), IFPNews reported on Wednesday.

Kerry referred to Iran’s nuclear issue and said that certain leaders of regional states had at that time believed that bombing Iran was the only solution.

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