President Bush warned of the threat of a nuclear holocaust if Iran acquires nuclear weapons. Speaking Tuesday to a national convention of the American Legion in Reno, Nev., Bush told American war veterans that Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons threatens to put the Middle East “under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust.” Bush also renewed charges that Iran is fomenting instability in Iraq by training fighters and supplying them with weapons.
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