It was tin foil hat to think the US would approve, even under Bush, and, with this story, all appearances are that it's still pretty tin foil hat to think the US approves. Mho.

Also, it is a leak meant to accomplish something, not just a transparent opinion. Part of the war of words diplomats use to avoid war. We don't know what it's meant to accomplish yet, but that's what makes it news to me, it's part of a war of words by leaders in charge of nation's policies. (It may not even be true! I do think we have to keep our minds open to that, it may be disinfo for some reason we don't understand yet.)

Back in the Bush days, I always posted Seymour Hersh's pieces filled with leakers leaks about Iran on the news site I frequented. But I learned not to take them as whole cloth truth, but to try to figure out what the leaker(s) wanted to accomplish by feeding Hersh the things they were feeding him.. I came out of that process pretty convinced that the Bush administration wasn't going to do anything about Iran except saber rattle.. Found out later that the Bush administration had some pretty serious distrust and disagreement with Israel about Iran, but they were trying to keep it hidden..

We've now seeing an administration that apparently doesn't want to hide that as much. (Apparently.) That's what's newsworthy.

Still ain't no guarantee that Israel is going to attack Iran's nuke facilities. But if they do, I think chances are high that it's not going to be Armaggeddon ,rather, it's very likely to be the same kind of thing like their attacks on nuke facilities in the past, where it took a couple months to figure out that it even happened. Iranians can't keep the assassinations of important scientists under wraps for a long time, but they probably aren't going to scream and yell about something disappearing via explosion that they continually claim doesn't exist.