A leaked email from Hillary Clinton’s campaign Chairman John Podesta referenced a 2015 BuzzFeed article in which Sen. Mark Kirk predicted nuclear war in the Middle East in the wake of the Iran nuclear deal. Podesta's email was in response to a message from John Anzalone that included a link to the BuzzFeed article and a quote from Kirk. “This agreement condemns the next generation to cleaning up a nuclear war in the Persian Gulf,” Kirk told BuzzFeed at the time. “This is the greatest appeasement since Chamberlain gave Czechoslovakia to Hitler.” “Yup,” Podesta said in response to the email The former secretary of state has backed the Iran nuclear deal, which was reached in 2015.