Message [Describing the regime's atrocities and tyrannies]

 In His Most Exalted Name
To the entire noble nation of Iran, especially the eminent clergymen, scholars, and seminary students, may Allah always assist them:
After profound greetings and salutations, let me state that the sufferings of the noble nation of Iran, particularly the young seminary and university class which is under the clutches of the illegal and uncommitted regime in Iran is indeed regrettable. Sending the `ulama' and clergymen to military service for the `crime' of expressing resentment toward the persecutions, tortures, executions, exiles, and imprisonments without legal and religious warrant, is an act of revenge that the puppet regime of imperialism is taking against Islam and its adherents.
You must go to the barracks; religious schools must be dishonored; imprisonments, exiles, summary executions must take place so that a wider door can be opened for the left and right foreigners as well as their agents such as Israel. Under the full-of-fanfare and much-trumpeted term, the White Revolution, in front of which the mass murder of Khordad 15 occurred, the Iranian nation must remain backward; the Qur'anic and Islamic culture be antiquated; laws violated; and corruption and debauchery be taken to the depth of this mourning place called Iran so that the new colonizer can easily continue its plunder while its ill-reputed agents can pound the head of this cemetery with luxury, pleasure and wealth-accumulation. Through the noise of progressive country and its blowing of horn, this strange country must be pushed back and deprived of the necessities and main concerns of a developing country. In the name of progress and advancement, the Iranian nation must be deprived of water, electricity, doctor, medicine and- as confessed by the newspapers affiliated to the establishment- many are even deprived of bread and primary cost of living, and if they ever breath, their sound will be suppressed with a bayonet so that oil reserves and other minerals of ours can be plundered and nothing but suffering, hardship, imprisonment, and torture for the Iranian nation will be left.
In the name of" Mission for My Country," this nation must remain in desolate and backward state and Islam, which is the only sanctuary of this nation and barrier in the way of the foreigners, must be crushed. It is as if they are commissioned to crackdown down on the enlightened young class whether they are seminary or university graduates; to dishonor the religious schools and imprison and torture the `ulama'; to offer all the sanctities of the country to Israel and its masters; to give the foreign investors predominance over the country's remaining wealth; to spread the sources of debauchery and violate the sanctity of the Qur'an; to grant immunity to the foreign advisers and their workers while denying the same to the nation, clergymen, scholars, and students; to extinguish the light of guidance in the name of Islam; and to promote the neo-colonial culture to the remotest point of the country while putting aside Islam and the Islamic culture. If, God forbid, they have time, they would carry out more missions.
You, nation of Iran! O pure-natured Muslims! Be more inclined to the luminous ordinances of the Holy Qur'an; give your hands in alliance and brotherhood to each other; abandon your differences; and think for the Holy Qur'an and the dear Islam. Set before your eyes the teachings of Islam. Keep the mosques and religious assemblies which are Islam's fortresses against the evils, vibrant and mobilized, and confront these heartless imperialists wrathfully and loathsomely. Violate any law contrary to justice and equality as much as possible. Invite your brothers to justice and patience; study and observe the ordinances of Islam and the conduct of the Islamic government. Make the unaware aware. May the Omnipotent God uproot the foundation of this oppression.
O you students of the religious sciences! O scholars and clergymen of the holy seminaries, especially the holy seminary in Qum! Do not be scared of these insolences and persecutions. You, who are the soldiers of Islam and the Qur'an, are duty-bound to preserve this important fortress which is the target of the foreigners and their agents. With complete confidence in, and reliance on, God, the Exalted, and through asking assistance from the blessed souls of the repositories of laws and protectors of the Qur'an, continue your work which is the study of the Islamic jurisprudence, moral purification, and enlightening and guiding the oppressed nation, as God Almighty is with you.
O you zealous soldiers of the Master of the Age, may Allah, the Exalted, expedite his advent, who were dragged to the barracks! Intensify your military training with utmost courage. Just as Hadrat Moses (`a) was raised up in the arms of Pharaoh and twisted together the edifice of his tyranny and oppression, under the command of a pious authority may you also be able at an appropriate time to sever the malicious hands and eradicate these sources of corruption and oppression from their root and base.
I offer my condolences to all Muslims for the tragedies and atrocities perpetrated daily by the tyrannical regime against this calamity-striken and oppressed country. May God cut off the hands of the foreigners from the Muslim countries, especially Iran, and grant prosperity to the Islamic nation. May God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini