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.)