World News Through the Third Lens

IRAN HEADS FOR "STUNNING PUNCH" AGAINST WEST (From INN, 2/11/10): Iran announced this week that it will more than quintuple its enrichment level of uranium for atomic weapons. Also, Islamic Iranian leader and Commander-In-Chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday Iran would deliver a "stunning blow" to the West during this weeks 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. On Friday, Iran's Foreign Minister announced his country would export its enriched uranium to the West, but two days later this plan was withdrawn. Instead,Iranian leader Ahmadinajad ordered a major step up in the processing of uranium, enriching it at a 20% level instead of the current 3.5% level.Speaking Tuesday, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Commission, Ali Akhbar Salihi, said it was Iran's right to enrich uranium up to 100%. [It is now February 12 in Iran, so apparently the stunning blow today was Ahmadinijad's announcement that Iran had already enriched uranium up to 20%. Nuclear scientists say that enrichment now becomes easier if in fact the 20% level has been reached.

A BIBLICAL (THIRD LENS) PERSPECTIVE: "They have greatly oppressed me from my youth, but they have not gained the victory over me," (Psalm 129:2)

PM NETANYAHU: IMPOSE CRIPPLING SANCTIONS ON IRAN, NOW: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on the international community to act quickly against Iran as it continues to defy the West by augmenting uranium enrichment. He has also demanded that European Ambassadors condemn recent statements made in Tehran regarding the annihilation of Israel. "....The international community needs to protect peace and impose sanctions on Iran. Not partial and moderate sanctions. The duty is to impose paralyzing sanctions on Iran now," he said. (From Ynet)

A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE: "May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame." (Psalm 129:5)

HAITI JUDGE TO FREE US MISSIONARIES: Port-Au-Prince (Reuters) - A Haitian judge has decided to release 10 US Missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 children and trying to spirit them out of the earthquake-stricken country, a judicial source said on Wednesday. The source said that the missionaries, who have been in jail since they were stopped at Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic on January 29, could be released as early as Thursday.

A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE: "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress....." (James 1:27) "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 5:10) "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country." (Proverbs 25:25)