Statements [Revealing the nature of the Shah's regime's land reforms, freedom of women and freedom of expression]

[In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful]

I would like to welcome you young Muslim men of Tehran University to my home. I hope you are steadfast enough, guarding your religion because we expect a lot from you valiant young men. We the Muslim nations should unite and fight against Israel and its agents in Iran. The seminaries have never agreed with the Land Reforms; the government did not put it forth to us and ask for our permission, did they? We know that this issue is brought upon to keep the farmers busy and to distract them. There is not anything wrong with suffrage for women, but their candidature will cause debauchery. Women's suffrage and the like are among the least important matters. We want to guard the Constitutionalism. Having deprived us of our freedom and rights, they talk about the freedom for women! For the time being, people are deprived of the freedom of writing, expression and even of the right of living. They have estimated an expenditure of fifty to sixty thousand tumans a month for the Prince's Bureau, while we pay twenty to thirty tumans to each seminary student monthly. «1»