Message [Reply to a message of condolence on the martyrdom of Raja'i and Bahonar]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Mr. Erich Honker (?) President of East Germany,

I received your Excellency's telegraph of condolence on the martyrdom of the beloved president and the prime minister of our country. I appreciate your sympathy and kindness and beseech God to annihilate and humiliate the plotters against the oppressed people of the world. I hope that this tragic incident and their likes which are committed by the agents of the world-devouring America in every nook and cranny of our country on a daily basis and a lot of innocent individuals fall victim to these inhuman plots, will act as a mouthpiece for our innocence in this part of the world, and be a decisive response to several unfounded allegations which accuse us of buying weapons from the occupying Israel.

Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini

Shahrivar 11,1360 AHS