World News and Trends: Growing evidence of Iran's hostile intentions
World Net Daily published a report saying that Iran will have nuclear weapons by 2008, indicating that international inspections have delayed the nation's nuclear capability by two years. The report "suggested that Israel may conduct an attack on Iran's nuclear facility to prevent Tehran from attaining a nuclear weapon" (July 30).
The London Observer reported that on July 31 Iran said it had "restarted the building of uranium enrichment centrifuges which the United States says are part of a bid to develop an atomic bomb" (Aug. 1).
Buried inside the special bipartisan congres-sional report on Iraq is the assertion that "it is not Iraq that has links with terrorists, but Iran" ( The Sunday Times, July 25). This feature article stated further that "ever since the 1979 revolution that deposed the Shah and put Ayatollah Khomeini in power, part of Iran has dreamed of conquering the world with its version of Islam."
Furthermore, a Sunday Telegraph correspondent in Iraq reported that "Iraqi border officials have admitted that buses full of Iranians routinely enter the country without passports or other official identification, despite Baghdad's attempts to clamp down on terrorist infiltration" (Aug. 1).
According to noted Daily Mail columnist Ann Leslie, who visited Iran in late spring, it is "a state whose official policy is the total destruction of Israel" (May 22). All this information is especially significant because Iran sits atop one of the largest oil reserves on the earth. Understandably the United States has not had any official diplomatic relations with Tehran since the 1979 Islamic revolution when student revolutionaries held American hostages for well over a year.
While growing evidence "vindicates President Bush's decision to name the mullahs as charter members of the ‘axis of evil'" (Wall Street Journal Europe, Aug. 2), there is growing pressure from Britain and certain American voices to reopen a meaningful diplomatic dialogue with Iran.
While the intentions may be good, how is constructive dialogue possible given the growing evidence of Iran's hostility to the West? (Sources: The Observer, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail [all London], World Net Daily.)
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Jerold Aust has served in the ministry for 52 years, as a public speaker for 58 years, a published writer for 38 years, and is employed by UCG’s Media and Communications Services. He is a Senior Writer, interviewer, and editor for Beyond Today Magazine and has taught Speech Communication for UCG’s ministerial online program and the Book of Revelation for ABC.
Jerold holds a BA in theology from Ambassador College, Pasadena (1968), an MA in Communication from California State University, Fullerton (1995), a distance-learning Ph.D (2006), and a Famous Writers School diploma in non-fiction writing (1973). Additionally, he studied post-grad communication at University of Southern California (1995), radio, TV, voice-overs, and Public Relations at Fullerton College (1995-1996), and graduate communication at Wichita State University (1978). Jerold has taught communication at the University of South Alabama (7 years) and ABC (17 years). His published works include, Ronald Reagan’s Rhetoric: Metaphor as Persuasion and EZSpeakers: Public Speaking Made Easy in 7 Steps. Jerold's overarching goal is to share with humankind its incredible destiny!
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