“We have got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel,”
Bush said. So I have told people that, if you are interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to have to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.”
The American President W. Bush on Wednesday warned Iran must be barred from nuclear weapons to avoid the prospect of a Third World War and dismissed the suggestions of a US-Russia rift on the crisis.
Bush intervened hours after Russian President Putin made a new proposal to end the nuclear crisis as he met Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for landmark talks in Tehran.
Bush upped US rhetoric at a White House news conference, warning the world must do more to isolate the Islamic republic.