Speech [Consequences of the domination of Pahlavi regime]

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

I apologize that our house is small and we cannot offer you proper hospitality because you are, praise be to God, many in number. «1» I pray to God for your success, and I hope that one day you young people will return to Iran healthy and victorious and will take the control of your resources and government in your own hands. I hope that this dynasty will soon be discontinued and the criminal hands of foreigners will be severed from our resources and you gentlemen will take the destiny of your own country into your own hands with health and happiness.

As you now see, the fate of everything in our country lies in the hands of others. It was other countries who with their criminal hands brought this dynasty to power and installed it to rule over us, and throughout the whole of its history, from fifty-odd years ago until the present, this dynasty has oppressed us and has betrayed our nation. They have given our resources to others; they have made our country a base of oppression, a base for America.

I ask of God, the Blessed and Exalted, to keep you all, to grant you success and to grant the people of Iran success and victory. May God grant you all happiness and health, God willing.