Iran's President Calls For America's Destruction; Author Warns Threat Must Be Taken Seriously

November 2, 2005 — According to the transcript of Iranian President Ahmadinejad's speech at a recent anti-Israel conference in Tehran, which was translated and published by The New York Times, he predicted and called for the destruction of the United States. The author of a new novel about a plot by Iran to inflict nuclear terrorism on America, Sheldon Filger, warned that ignoring the statement by Iran's president could have grave consequences for world peace.

News headlines across the world exploded with the diatribe that emanated from the lips of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. According to Mr. Ahmadinejad, Israel must be "wiped off the map." However, it was not only Israel that Mr. Ahmadinejad threatened with annihilation. In a transcript of the speech posted by the Iranian Student News Association on its website, which was translated and published by The New York Times on October 30th, 2005, Iran's president made clear his desire to see the U.S. destroyed along with Israel. Refering to the United States as "the world oppressor," Ahmadinejad said, "Many who are dissapointed in the struggle between the Islamic world and the infidels…say it is not possible to have a world without the United States and Zionism. But you know that this is a possible goal and slogan."

Ever since the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran following Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979, the annihilation of what is refered to as the "great Satan," meaning America, has been a constant rhetorical flourish of the Iranian leadership. For more than two decades, rallies and demonstrations throughout Iran have echoed to chants of "death to America!" In a new and terrifying novel, "King of Bombs" (http://www.kingofbombs.com),the author, Sheldon Filger, suggests a scenario where the diatribes of Iran's radical rulers become reality, when they team up with Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda movement, in a plot involving nuclear terrorism directed against their common enemy; the United States of America.

In an interview with Washington D.C. radio talk show host Bernie McCain (WOL Washington and WOLB Baltimore), Mr. Filger pointed out that Iran's repeated threats to bring "death to America" may be more than rhetorical. "The State Department has identified Iran as the world's greatest state sponsor of international terrorism," he said. "This regime is also engaged in what many experts believe is a covert nuclear weapons program," Filger added.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other specialists, who have monitored Iran's secretive nuclear development program, much of which is being conducted at hidden, underground facilities, have expressed concern that Iranian radicals could transfer nuclear weapons, or materials required for building a nuclear bomb, to terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda. In Filger's novel, "King of Bombs," the most radical elements in Iran's leadership are involved in an intricate conspiracy with Al-Qaeda and North Korea, seeking to build an exact replica of the most powerful nuclear device ever designed and tested, with an explosive yield equal to thousands of Hiroshima atomic bombs. Their goal is to detonate the weapon in New York City, inflicting apocalyptic devastastion on the United States, and eliminating it as a global power. Sheldon Filger indicated that radical Islamists, including Iran's rulers, could use texts from the Koran to justify genocide against their enemies, especially America, through the use of nuclear weapons. He refered specifically to the 4th sura (chapter) of the Koran, where the 55th verse states: "Those that deny Our revelation We will burn in fire. No sooner will their skins be consumed than We shall give them other skins, so that they may truly taste the scourge."

In conducting research for his novel, Mr. Filger uncovered disturbing facts related to Iran's secretive nuclear program. "According to a recent report carried by Reuters News Service, the Iranians covertly purchased quantities of deuterium and tritum in South Korea," Filger said. "What is ominous about this information, if correct, is that these hydrogen isotopes are uneccesary in a peaceful nuclear program. However, they are indispensible for building hydrogen bombs, which are hundreds and potentially thousands of times more powerful than atomic bombs of the type that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. For that reason, threats made by Iranian President Ahmadinejad must be taken very seriously. When Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States and threatened to murder American civilians, he was ignored until 9/11. Like the Al-Qaeda leader, Iran's President has given a clear indication of his intentions, and we ignore him at our peril."

Mr. Filger's warning was echoed in a recent editorial that appeared in The New York Times. In its October 29, 2005 edition, The New York Times, refering to Ahmadinejad's threat that Iran's enemies would "…burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury," concluded with the sober warning, "…there must be no illusions about the ideologue presiding in Iran."

"King of Bombs" is available at Amazon.com and other online bookstores, and at http://www.kingofbombs.com