Speech [Islam's treatment of minorities]

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

I would like to thank the gentlemen. Gentlemen, you can rest assured that all minorities have always been treated justly and humanely in Islam and enjoyed welfare. Zoroastrians, like the rest of the minorities, are part of the Iranian nation; they and we live together in this country. God willing, everyone will enjoy well-being. And the unity of expression, which is the key of this victory, should be preserved everywhere; we should safeguard this key in our territory and you do the same in yours. Likewise, the rest of the other social strata should do the same. Everyone must be vigilant and with hands joined together, we must rebuild the devastated Iran we now have in our hands.

They (ex-regime) have depleted all our reserves. Some of our (crown) jewelry was taken away by the father (Rida Khan) and most of it by the son and his cronies. Similarly, they stashed away the moneys here in foreign banks amounting to billions, which they had transferred to foreign banks. God willing, this money will be retrieved and the Shah will be extradited back to Iran to be tried in person or in absentia and his property confiscated because they never had any property. Their property belongs to the nation.

You, who are Zoroastrians and have been the servants of this nation and country, must carry on with your work and safeguard the unity of expression.

I implore God the Almighty for the success of the entire Iranian nation.