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     US, Iran Standoff Grows Tenser
     By Scott Peterson
     The Christian Science Monitor

     Wednesday 10 May 2006
Despite rare letter, Washington sees no reason to 
engage Tehran as the UN considers action.

     Istanbul, Turkey - For 27 years, the 
rhetorical swordplay between the US and Iran has 
been unrelenting. Iran portrays its latest thrust 
in the ongoing row with the West, an 
unprecedented letter from President Mahmoud 
Ahmadinejad to President Bush, as a "new diplomatic opening."

     Striking a tough and confident tone and with 
few conciliatory words, Mr. Ahmadinejad addressed 
a host of issues, but only touched on atomic 
energy and provided no new initiatives for ending 
the standoff over Iran's nuclear program.

     Experts say that rather than being any kind 
of step toward direct dialogue, the letter 
reveals just how far apart Washington and Tehran 
remain, with differences magnified by 
conservative leaderships on both sides that gain 
more from saber-rattling than peacemaking.

     "We should put our ambitions into 
perspective. The ambition should be trying to 
avoid a crisis and confrontation, rather than 
trying to bring about a [US-Iran] rapprochement," 
says Karim Sadjadpour, analyst for the 
Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG), now in Washington.

     In the letter, Ahmadinejad criticized Mr. 
Bush's handling of 9/11, the creation of Israel, 
and drew comparisons between current US threats 
against Iran and the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. He 
called the war in Iraq a "great tragedy [that] 
came to engulf both the [US and Iraqi] people."

     He also declared the failure of "liberalism 
and western-style democracy," and said the US is 
now subject of "an ever-increasing global hatred."

     "People around the world are flocking toward 
... the Almighty God," he said. "My question for 
you [Bush] is, 'Do you want to join them?' "

     "Ahmadinejad has made it nearly impossible 
for the US to engage him directly," says Mr. 
Sadjadpour, referring to the Iranian leader's 
past remarks that Israel should be "wiped off the 
map," and doubting events of the holocaust.

     "If there is to be any warming of ties ... 
Iran has got to present a different interlocutor. 
Ahmadinejad is not the right messenger," he says.

     US officials dismissed the 18-page letter, 
even as Washington this week attempts to rally 
the UN Security Council around a tough resolution 
to limit Iran's nuclear ambitions. Tuesday, 
Ahmadinejad said the letter represents the "words 
and opinions of the Iranian nation."

     The official view in Iran is "optimistic, 
and [the letter] shows that Ahmadinejad is 
willing to have a dialogue and interact with the 
international community," says Shirzad 
Bozorgmehr, deputy editor of the English-language Iran News in Tehran.

     During the "Year of the Prophet" in Iran, 
the president can both reassure hard-liners that 
he is doing as the prophet Muhammad did in his 
day - of writing letters to enemies - and 
domestically send the message that he is "not a 
warmonger," says Mr. Bozorgmehr.

     "For him it is a win-win situation - what is 
there to lose?" adds Bozorgmehr. "The media here 
are considering it a new opportunity to resolve a 
crisis, but [the letter] only seems to be a 
compilation of grudges against the West and US we have heard before."

     "This letter is not the place that one would 
find an opening to engage," US Secretary of State 
Condoleezza Rice told the Associated Press on 
Monday. "There's nothing in here that would 
suggest that we're on any different course than 
we were before we got the letter."

     The US severed ties with Iran after 
militants stormed the US Embassy in 1979 during 
the Islamic Revolution. Ayatollah Ruhollah 
Khomeini, the leader of that revolution, dubbed 
American the "Great Satan." The burning of US 
flags and chants of "Death to America" have been 
staple fare for years at government- sanctioned rallies.

     In 2002, Bush declared Iran part of an "axis 
of evil," and its clerical rulers are often 
mentioned in Washington circles as being the 
"next" target for US-engineered regime change. 
The Bush administration in February asked 
Congress for an additional $75 million for "democracy promotion" in Iran.

     The historic hostility and suspicion have 
come to a head over the nuclear issue. Washington 
accuses Tehran of using a peaceful power program 
as a cover for acquiring nuclear weapons, and has 
not ruled out military action. Iran doubts 
whether any step it takes can convince the West 
of peaceful intent, or forestall US attempts at regime change.

     "This is the first time you have a 
conservative government in Iran, that is across 
the board in favor of talking to the US," says 
Mohammad Hadi Semati, a political scientist at 
Tehran University, now a visiting scholar at the 
Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. "But 
Washington and Tehran are now on two different 
planes. In the last 27 years, when Washington was 
ready [to talk], Tehran has not been ready. Now 
Iran is ready, and Washington is not."

     "Both sides have cornered themselves" by 
their uncompromising rhetoric, says Mr. Semati. 
"It is framed: 'Either the US has to back-off, or 
Iran has to back-off, or the middle road is war. There is no other way.'"

     The result, Semati adds, "leaves very little 
room for creative diplomacy."

     Such diplomacy might bring the US and Iran 
to the table, as the US has with North Korea - by 
offering security guarantees and other incentives 
in exchange for limiting nuclear programs. But 
the North Korean "model" has a negative aspect, 
too, experts say. Pressure to halt nuclear work 
eventually led North Korea to withdraw from the 
Non-Proliferation Treaty, and build bombs.

     In Iran's case, mutual mistrust runs just as deep.

     For Iran, the nuclear issue is "simply a 
pretext for regime change," says Sadjadpour of 
ICG. "They believe that if they are going to 
compromise, it's not going to get them out of 
trouble, but be seen as a sign of weakness [that 
will] invite further pressure."

     Likewise, the US believes "Iran's intentions 
are not peaceful, and they should not reward bad 
behavior," says Sadjadpour. "So Iran needs to 
compromise unequivocally, not based on whatever incentives the US can offer."

     Both the US and Europeans are in a further 
dilemma, he adds. While offering nothing to 
former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, whose 
mantra was a "dialogue of civilizations," 
reaching out to this president "sends the message 
to Tehran that a belligerent foreign policy reaps rewards."

     The leap to talks would not be so great, 
considering that Iranians are perhaps the most 
pro-US population in the Middle East. A poll 
commissioned by a parliamentary committee in 2002 
showed that 75 percent of Iranians favored 
renewing ties with the US. When the results were 
leaked to the press, one pollster working with an 
American firm was jailed on charges of selling 
confidential information to an "enemy state."

     The Bush administration late last year 
authorized the US Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay 
Khalilzad, to speak to Iranian officials in 
meetings that both sides say would be limited only to Iraq issues.

     "The fact is that the publicity about 
[Ahmadinejad's letter] is more important than the 
content," says Semati at the Wilson Center. "They 
are trying, in the public domain, to say 'We are 
using every tool to convince the Americans - and 
the world - that we want to talk, and want to 
solve these differences by diplomacy.' "

     Iranian newspapers Tuesday showed both 
presidents on their front pages, sometimes 
juxtaposed to imply that Bush was attentively reading the Iranian missive.

     "[Ahmadinejad] wanted to get himself on the 
stage, and take control of the issues," adds 
Semati. "He wants to be a player."



Editor's Comment: TO has chosen to run the full 
text of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's 
letter to US President George W. Bush primarily 
for two reasons. First, it is a historic 
document, the first written communication between 
the leadership of Iran and the leadership of the 
United States since the Iranian Revolution of 
1979 overthrew the US-backed Shah of Iran and 
stormed the US Embassy in Tehran. Second, our 
publication best serves our readership when we 
function as a forum for dialog as a fundamental 
alternative to conflict. If Mr. Ahmadinejad 
cannot speak on the pages of TO, then where? - ma/TO

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     Full Text: The President of Iran's Letter to President Bush
     Translated by Le Monde

     Tuesday 09 May 2006

     Mr. George Bush,
     President of the United States of America

     For sometime now I have been thinking, how 
one can justify the undeniable contradictions 
that exist in the international arena - which are 
being constantly debated, specially in political 
forums and amongst university students. Many 
questions remain unanswered. These have prompted 
me to discuss some of the contradictions and 
questions, in the hopes that it might bring about 
an opportunity to redress them.

     Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ 
(PBUH), the great Messenger of God, Feel obliged 
to respect human rights, Present liberalism as a 
civilization model, Announce one's opposition to 
the proliferation of nuclear weapons and WMDs, 
Make War and Terror his slogan, And finally, Work 
towards the establishment of a unified 
international community - a community which 
Christ and the virtuous of the Earth will one day 
govern, But at the same time, Have countries 
attacked; The lives, reputations and possessions 
of people destroyed and on the slight chance of 
the ... of a ... criminals in a village city, or 
convoy for example the entire village, city or 
convey set ablaze. Or because of the possibility 
of the existence of WMDs in one country, it is 
occupied, around one hundred thousand people 
killed, its water sources, agriculture and 
industry destroyed, close to 180,000 foreign 
troops put on the ground, sanctity of private 
homes of citizens broken, and the country pushed 
back perhaps fifty years. At what price? Hundreds 
of billions of dollars spent from the treasury of 
one country and certain other countries and tens 
of thousands of young men and women - as 
occupation troops - put in harms way, taken away 
from family and love ones, their hands stained 
with the blood of others, subjected to so much 
psychological pressure that everyday some commit 
suicide ant those returning home suffer 
depression, become sickly and grapple with all 
sorts of aliments; while some are killed and 
their bodies handed of their families.

     On the pretext of the existence of WMDs, 
this great tragedy came to engulf both the 
peoples of the occupied and the occupying 
country. Later it was revealed that no WMDs existed to begin with.

     Of course Saddam was a murderous dictator. 
But the war was not waged to topple him, the 
announced goal of the war was to find and destroy 
weapons of mass destruction. He was toppled along 
the way towards another goal, nevertheless the 
people of the region are happy about it. I point 
out that throughout the many years of the ... war 
on Iran Saddam was supported by the West.

     Mr. President,

     You might know that I am a teacher. My 
students ask me how can theses actions be 
reconciled with the values outlined at the 
beginning of this letter and duty to the 
tradition of Jesus Christ (PBUH), the Messenger of peace and forgiveness.

     There are prisoners in Guantanamo Bay that 
have not been tried, have no legal 
representation, their families cannot see them 
and are obviously kept in a strange land outside 
their own country. There is no international 
monitoring of their conditions and fate. No one 
knows whether they are prisoners, POWs, accused or criminals.

     European investigators have confirmed the 
existence of secret prisons in Europe too. I 
could not correlate the abduction of a person, 
and him or her being kept in secret prisons, with 
the provisions of any judicial system. For that 
matter, I fail to understand how such actions 
correspond to the values outlined in the 
beginning of this letter, i.e. the teachings of 
Jesus Christ (PBUH), human rights and liberal values.

     Young people, university students and 
ordinary people have many questions about the 
phenomenon of Israel. I am sure you are familiar with some of them.

     Throughout history many countries have been 
occupied, but I think the establishment of a new 
country with a new people, is a new phenomenon that is exclusive to our times.

     Students are saying that sixty years ago 
such a country did no exist. The show old 
documents and globes and say try as we have, we 
have not been able to find a country named Israel.

     I tell them to study the history of WWI and 
II. One of my students told me that during WWII, 
which more than tens of millions of people 
perished in, news about the war, was quickly 
disseminated by the warring parties. Each touted 
their victories and the most recent battlefront 
defeat of the other party. After the war, they 
claimed that six million Jews had been killed. 
Six million people that were surely related to at least two million families.

     Again let us assume that these events are 
true. Does that logically translate into the 
establishment of the state of Israel in the 
Middle East or support for such a state? How can 
this phenomenon be rationalized or explained?

     Mr. President,

     I am sure you know how - and at what cost - 
Israel was established: Many thousands were killed in the process.

     Millions of indigenous people were made refugees.

     Hundred of thousands of hectares of 
farmland, olive plantations, towns and villages were destroyed.

     This tragedy is not exclusive to the time of 
establishment; unfortunately it has been ongoing for sixty years now.

     A regime has been established which does not 
show mercy even to kids, destroys houses while 
the occupants are still in them, announces 
beforehand its list and plans to assassinate 
Palestinian figures and keeps thousands of 
Palestinians in prison. Such a phenomenon is 
unique - or at the very least extremely rare - in recent memory.

     Another big question asked by people is why 
is this regime being supported? Is support for 
this regime in line with the teachings of Jesus 
Christ (PBUH) or Moses (PBUH) or liberal values? 
Or are we to understand that allowing the 
original inhabitants of these lands - inside and 
outside Palestine - whether they are Christian, 
Muslim or Jew, to determine their fate, runs 
contrary to principles of democracy, human rights 
and the teachings of prophets? If not, why is 
there so much opposition to a referendum?

     The newly elected Palestinian administration 
recently took office. All independent observes 
have confirmed that this government represents 
the electorate. Unbelievingly, they have put the 
elected government under pressure and have 
advised it to recognise the Israeli regime, 
abandon the struggle and follow the programs of the previous government.

     If the current Palestinian government had 
run on the above platform, would the Palestinian 
people have voted for it? Again, can such 
position taken in opposition to the Palestinian 
government be reconciled with the values outlined 
earlier? The people are also saying why are all 
UNSC resolutions in condemnation of Israel vetoed?

     Mr. President,

     As you are well aware, I live amongst the 
people and am in constant contact with them -many 
people from around the Middle East manage to 
contact me as well. They dot not have faith in 
these dubious policies either. There is evidence 
that the people of the region are becoming 
increasingly angry with such policies.

     It is not my intention to pose to many 
questions, but I need to refer to other points as well.

     Why is it that any technological and 
scientific achievement reached in the Middle East 
regions is translated into and portrayed as a 
threat to the Zionist regime? Is not scientific 
R&D one of the basic rights of nations.

     You are familiar with history. Aside from 
the Middle Ages, in what other point in history 
has scientific and technical progress been a 
crime? Can the possibility of scientific 
achievements being utilized for military purposes 
be reason enough to oppose science and technology 
altogether? If such a supposition is true, then 
all scientific disciplines, including physics, 
chemistry, mathematics, medicine, engineering, etc. must be opposed.

     Lies were told in the Iraqi matter. What was 
the result? I have no doubt that telling lies is 
reprehensible in any culture, and you do not like to be lied to.

     Mr. President,

     Don't Latin Americans have the right to ask, 
why their elected governments are being opposed 
and coup leaders supported? Or, why must they 
constantly be threatened and live in fear?

     The people of Africa are hardworking, 
creative and talented. They can play an important 
and valuable role in providing for the needs of 
humanity and contribute to its material and 
spiritual progress. Poverty and hardship in large 
parts of Africa are preventing this from 
happening. Don't they have the right to ask why 
their enormous wealth - including minerals - is 
being looted, despite the fact that they need it more than others?

     Again, do such actions correspond to the 
teachings of Christ and the tenets of human rights?

     The brave and faithful people of Iran too 
have many questions and grievances, including: 
the coup d'etat of 1953 and the subsequent 
toppling of the legal government of the day, 
opposition to the Islamic revolution, 
transformation of an Embassy into a headquarters 
supporting, the activities of those opposing the 
Islamic Republic (many thousands of pages of 
documents corroborates this claim), support for 
Saddam in the war waged against Iran, the 
shooting down of the Iranian passenger plane, 
freezing the assets of the Iranian nation, 
increasing threats, anger and displeasure 
vis-à-vis the scientific and nuclear progress of 
the Iranian nation (just when all Iranians are 
jubilant and collaborating their country's 
progress), and many other grievances that I will not refer to in this letter.

     Mr. President,

     September Eleven was a horrendous incident. 
The killing of innocents is deplorable and 
appalling in any part of the world. Our 
government immediately declared its disgust with 
the perpetrators and offered its condolences to 
the bereaved and expressed its sympathies.

     All governments have a duty to protect the 
lives, property and good standing of their 
citizens. Reportedly your government employs 
extensive security, protection and intelligence 
systems - and even hunts its opponents abroad. 
September eleven was not a simple operation. 
Could it be planned and executed without 
coordination with intelligence and security 
services - or their extensive infiltration? Of 
course this is just an educated guess. Why have 
the various aspects of the attacks been kept 
secret? Why are we not told who botched their 
responsibilities? And, why aren't those 
responsible and the guilty parties identified and put on trial?

     All governments have a duty to provide 
security and peace of mind for their citizens. 
For some years now, the people of your country 
and neighbors of world trouble spots do not have 
peace of mind. After 9.11, instead of healing and 
tending to the emotional wounds of the survivors 
and the American people - who had been immensely 
traumatized by the attacks - some Western media 
only intensified the climates of fear and 
insecurity - some constantly talked about the 
possibility of new terror attacks and kept the 
people in fear. Is that service to the American 
people? Is it possible to calculate the damages incurred from fear and panic?

     American citizen lived in constant fear of 
fresh attacks that could come at any moment and 
in any place. They felt insecure in the streets, 
in their place of work and at home. Who would be 
happy with this situation? Why was the media, 
instead of conveying a feeling of security and 
providing peace of mind, giving rise to a feeling of insecurity?

     Some believe that the hype paved the way - 
and was the justification - for an attack on 
Afghanistan. Again I need to refer to the role of 
media. In media charters, correct dissemination 
of information and honest reporting of a story 
are established tenets. I express my deep regret 
about the disregard shown by certain Western 
media for these principles. The main pretext for 
an attack on Iraq was the existence of WMDs. This 
was repeated incessantly - for the public to, 
finally, believe - and the ground set for an attack on Iraq.

     Will the truth not be lost in a contrive and 
deceptive climate? Again, if the truth is allowed 
to be lost, how can that be reconciled with the 
earlier mentioned values? Is the truth known to the Almighty lost as well?

     Mr. President,

     In countries around the world, citizens 
provide for the expenses of governments so that 
their governments in turn are able to serve them.

     The question here is what has the hundreds 
of billions of dollars, spent every year to pay 
for the Iraqi campaign, produced for the citizens?

     As your Excellency is aware, in some states 
of your country, people are living in poverty. 
Many thousands are homeless and unemployment is a 
huge problem. Of course these problems exist - to 
a larger or lesser extent - in other countries as 
well. With these conditions in mind, can the 
gargantuan expenses of the campaign - paid from 
the public treasury - be explained and be 
consistent with the aforementioned principles?

     What has been said, are some of the 
grievances of the people around the world, in our 
region and in your country. But my main 
contention - which I am hoping you will agree to 
some of it - is: Those in power have specific 
time in office, and do not rule indefinitely, but 
their names will be recorded in history and will 
be constantly judged in the immediate and distant futures.

     The people will scrutinize our presidencies.

     Did we manage to bring peace, security and 
prosperity for the people or insecurity and 
unemployment? Did we intend to establish justice, 
or just supported especial interest groups, and 
by forcing many people to live in poverty and 
hardship, made a few people rich and powerful - 
thus trading the approval of the people and the 
Almighty with theirs'? Did we defend the rights 
of the underprivileged or ignore them? Did we 
defend the rights of all people around the world 
or imposed wars on them, interfered illegally in 
their affairs, established hellish prisons and 
incarcerated some of them? Did we bring the world 
peace and security or raised the specter of 
intimidation and threats? Did we tell the truth 
to our nation and others around the world or 
presented an inverted version of it?

     Were we on the side of people or the 
occupiers and oppressors? Did our administration 
set out to promote rational behaviour, logic, 
ethics, peace, fulfilling obligations, justice, 
service to the people, prosperity, progress and 
respect for human dignity or the force of guns. 
Intimidation, insecurity, disregard for the 
people, delaying the progress and excellence of 
other nations, and trample on people's rights? 
And finally, they will judge us on whether we 
remained true to our oath of office - to serve 
the people, which is our main task, and the 
traditions of the prophets - or not?

     Mr. President,

     How much longer can the world tolerate this 
situation? Where will this trend lead the world 
to? How long must the people of the world pay for 
the incorrect decisions of some rulers? How much 
longer will the specter of insecurity - raised 
from the stockpiles of weapons of mass 
destruction - hunt the people of the world? How 
much longer will the blood of the innocent men, 
women and children be spilled on the streets, and 
people's houses destroyed over their heads? Are 
you pleased with the current condition of the 
world? Do you think present policies can continue?

     If billions of dollars spent on security, 
military campaigns and troop movement were 
instead spent on investment and assistance for 
poor countries, promotion of health, combating 
different diseases, education and improvement of 
mental and physical fitness, assistance to the 
victims of natural disasters, creation of 
employment opportunities and production, 
development projects and poverty alleviation, 
establishment of peace, mediation between 
disputing states and distinguishing the flames of 
racial, ethnic and other conflicts were would the 
world be today? Would not your government, and 
people be justifiably proud? Would not your 
administration's political and economic standing 
have been stronger? And I am most sorry to say, 
would there have been an ever increasing global 
hatred of the American governments?

     Mr. President, it is not my intention to distress anyone.

     If prophet Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ishmael, 
Joseph or Jesus Christ (PBUH) were with us today, 
how would they have judged such behavior? Will we 
be given a role to play in the promised world, 
where justice will become universal and Jesus 
Christ (PBUH) will be present? Will they even accept us?

     My basic question is this: Is there no 
better way to interact with the rest of the 
world? Today there are hundreds of millions of 
Christians, hundreds of millions of Moslems and 
millions of people who follow the teachings of 
Moses (PBUH). All divine religions share and 
respect on word and that is monotheism or belief 
in a single God and no other in the world.

     The holy Koran stresses this common word and 
calls on an followers of divine religions and 
says: [3.64] Say: O followers of the Book! Come 
to an equitable proposition between us and you 
that we shall not serve any but Allah and (that) 
we shall not associate aught. With Him and (that) 
some of us shall not take others for lords 
besides Allah, but if they turn back, then say: 
Bear witness that we are Muslims. (The Family of Imran).

     Mr. President,

     According to divine verses, we have all been 
called upon to worship one God and follow the 
teachings of divine prophets. To worship a God 
which is above all powers in the world and can do 
all He pleases. The Lord which knows that which 
is hidden and visible, the past and the future, 
knows what goes on in the Hearts of His servants 
and records their deeds. The Lord who is the 
possessor of the heavens and the earth and all 
universe is His court planning for the universe 
is done by His hands, and gives His servants the 
glad tidings of mercy and forgiveness of sins. He 
is the companion of the oppressed and the enemy 
of oppressors. He is the Compassionate, the 
Merciful. He is the recourse of the faithful and 
guides them towards the light from darkness. He 
is witness to the actions of His servants, He 
calls on servants to be faithful and do good 
deeds, and asks them to stay on the path of 
righteousness and remain steadfast. Calls on 
servants to heed His prophets and He is a witness 
to their deeds. A bad ending belongs only to 
those who have chosen the life of this world and 
disobey Him and oppress His servants. And A good 
and eternal paradise belong to those servants who 
fear His majesty and do not follow their lascivious selves.

     We believe a return to the teachings of the 
divine prophets is the only road leading to 
salvations. I have been told that Your Excellency 
follows the teachings of Jesus (PBUH), and 
believes in the divine promise of the rule of the righteous on Earth.

     We also believe that Jesus Christ (PBUH) was 
one of the great prophets of the Almighty. He has 
been repeatedly praised in the Koran. Jesus 
(PBUH) has been quoted in Koran as well; [19,36] 
And surely Allah is my Lord and your Lord, 
therefore serves Him; this is the right path, Marium.

     Service to and obedience of the Almighty is 
the credo of all divine messengers.

     The God of all people in Europe, Asia, 
Africa, America, the Pacific and the rest of the 
world is one. He is the Almighty who wants to 
guide and give dignity to all His servants. He has given greatness to Humans.

     We again read in the Holy Book: The Almighty 
God sent His prophets with miracles and clear 
signs to guide the people and show them divine 
signs and purity them from sins and pollutions. 
And He sent the Book and the balance so that the 
people display justice and avoid the rebellious.

     All of the above verses can be seen, one way 
or the other, in the Good Book as well.

     Divine prophets have promised: The day will 
come when all humans will congregate before the 
court of the Almighty, so that their deeds are 
examined. The good will be directed towards Haven 
and evildoers will meet divine retribution. I 
trust both of us believe in such a day, but it 
will not be easy to calculate the actions of 
rulers, because we must be answerable to our 
nations and all others whose lives have been 
directly or indirectly effected by our actions.

     All prophets, speak of peace and tranquility 
for man - based on monotheism, justice and respect for human dignity.

     Do you not think that if all of us come to 
believe in and abide by these principles, that 
is, monotheism, worship of God, justice, respect 
for the dignity of man, belief in the Last Day, 
we can overcome the present problems of the world 
- that are the result of disobedience to the 
Almighty and the teachings of prophets - and improve our performance?

     Do you not think that belief in these 
principles promotes and guarantees peace, friendship and justice?

     Do you not think that the aforementioned 
written or unwritten principles are universally respected?

     Will you not accept this invitation? That 
is, a genuine return to the teachings of 
prophets, to monotheism and justice, to preserve 
human dignity and obedience to the Almighty and His prophets?

     Mr. President,

     History tells us that repressive and cruel 
governments do not survive. God has entrusted The 
fate of man to them. The Almighty has not left 
the universe and humanity to their own devices. 
Many things have happened contrary to the wishes 
and plans of governments. These tell us that 
there is a higher power at work and all events are determined by Him.

     Can one deny the signs of change in the 
world today? Is this situation of the world today 
comparable to that of ten years ago? Changes 
happen fast and come at a furious pace.

     The people of the world are not happy with 
the status quo and pay little heed to the 
promises and comments made by a number of 
influential world leaders. Many people around the 
world feel insecure and oppose the spreading of 
insecurity and war and do not approve of and accept dubious policies.

     The people are protesting the increasing gap 
between the haves and the have-nots and the rich and poor countries.

     The people are disgusted with increasing corruption.

     The people of many countries are angry about 
the attacks on their cultural foundations and the 
disintegration of families. They are equally 
dismayed with the fading of care and compassion. 
The people of the world have no faith in 
international organisations, because their rights 
are not advocated by these organizations.

     Liberalism and Western style democracy have 
not been able to help realize the ideals of 
humanity. Today these two concepts have failed. 
Those with insight can already hear the sounds of 
the shattering and fall of the ideology and 
thoughts of the liberal democratic systems.

     We increasingly see that people around the 
world are flocking towards a main focal point - 
that is the Almighty God. Undoubtedly through 
faith in God and the teachings of the prophets, 
the people will conquer their problems. My 
question for you is: Do you not want to join them?

     Mr. President,

     Whether we like it or not, the world is 
gravitating towards faith in the Almighty and 
justice and the will of God will prevail over all things.




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