Is President Trump going to bomb Iran?
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
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Summary
Neither Iran nor the US appears overly eager to budge on their negotiations, though President Trump has issued threats and presented four demands for peace. It makes sense that Iran’s leaders would be hesitant to show weakness, but pretending they are in a position of strength when they're not is only going to make matters worse for them. Throughout Scripture, we find examples of people who lacked the self-awareness to see their situation objectively. The truth is that when we forget who God is, it becomes far easier to forget who we are as well.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Friday, January the 30th, 2026 edition of Denison Forum's daily article podcast. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrator, giving voice to today's daily article written by our senior editor for theology, Dr. Ryan Denison. |
| 0:17.6 | Quote, a massive armada is heading to Iran. Like with Venezuela, it is ready, willing, and able to rapidly fulfill its mission with speed and violence, if necessary, as I told Iran once before, make a deal. They didn't, and there was Operation Midnight Hammer, a major destruction of Iran. |
| 0:38.6 | The next attack will be far worse. |
| 0:41.1 | Don't make that happen again. |
| 0:43.2 | End quote. |
| 0:44.2 | That was President Trump's message to the leaders of Iran earlier this week, though it appears |
| 0:49.0 | to have fallen on deaf ears. |
| 0:51.0 | To this point, Iran and the U.S. have passed messages through intermediaries like |
| 0:56.2 | Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, but it does not appear that they have talked directly to one another. |
| 1:02.7 | Turkey has taken a leading role in those mediation, and Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Arragachi, |
| 1:08.9 | arrived earlier this morning for that purpose. So far, |
| 1:12.2 | at least, neither side appears overly eager to budge with Ariragchi using part of his time in |
| 1:18.3 | Turkey to decry the European Union's decision to name Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard |
| 1:24.6 | Corps a terrorist organization for their role in suppressing protests |
| 1:28.8 | earlier this month. However, those looking for a diplomatic solution may have time, as President |
| 1:34.3 | Trump does not seem to be in too much of a hurry to act, despite the threats he's issued. |
| 1:39.9 | As of this writing, he has yet to decide on an approach and that indecision stems largely from the |
| 1:46.2 | reality that they don't really have a clear picture of what they hope to accomplish. |
| 1:51.1 | Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has cautioned that regime change in Iran would be far more |
| 1:56.8 | complex than that carried out in Venezuela, and even there, to some extent, they appear to be |
| 2:02.5 | making things up as they go. But if they're hesitant to force a change in leadership, what are |
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