Message [Warning to the people and the army chiefs]

 In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Greetings to the noble and brave nation of Iran, may God Almighty assist them:
I don't know which miseries of the nation and which crimes of the Shah I should write about; my pen is incapable of writing. Should I mention about the crimes committed in the university by the Shah's executioners or about the general massacres throughout Iran by the order of this professional criminal? I am not capable of counting all the crimes committed across Iran which stepped our brothers and sisters in cold blood. Received information informs us of the new major crimes all the time, and Islam's children suffer new tragic events everyday.
The Shah's and his government's performance has become a disgrace. He wants to save himself under the protection of hired gypsies and mercenaries, but at the same time, he still doesn't want to stop cheating, and he wants to mislead people by formation of the so-called national government and commonplace theses and groundless propaganda. He has encouraged some pro-American royalists to scare people that due to the geographical situation of Iran, if the Shah leaves, the whole country will be lost, on the one hand, and to peddler and get the help of clergies and politicians in order to save the Shah, on the other, unaware of the fact that people have become so familiar with political matters that they won't care about these desperate moves anymore.
People of Iran recognize the Shah as the cause of all devastations and betrayals; he is the one who has given control to the superpowers over the country's political, economic, military and cultural state of affairs, and if he is given a chance, the country will be lost. These traitorous plans threaten the country to destruction; these plans come out of the mouths of the pro-Americans. The passionate people of Iran have risen to save the country from destruction, and to cut off the hands of the looters, and to upset the back-stabbing conspiracies. How could a nation accept the reconciliation plan, while it is mourning over its beloved ones and is aware of every crime that the Shah has committed? Those who are ignorant of God and are traitors to the nation and Islam are planning to keep the Shah on the throne and consequently to give him satanic power to burn down the good and the evil all together, in revenge. Now that the people of Iran are stuck on the junction of life and death, freedom and slavery, independence and colonialism, and economic justice and exploitations, and are responsible before God, the Exalted, for the generation to come, they must continue the movement as sensational as possible till achieving their goal, and disappointing those who want to waste the shed blood of our youth by pulling off satanic plots, and respond to these rationalizations of the Shah's agents with clenched fists, and to remember that:
1. Our Islamic target is removing the monarchy and overthrowing the reign of the Pahlavi dynasty, whose illegality and illegitimacy is clear to everyone and its betrayal and crimes are even clearer. The people of Iran will oppose any plan that requires the survival of the kingship system and the preservation of the Pahlavi dynasty; and there is no ambiguity about this suggestion, which the Iranian nation has frequently declared in its referendums throughout the country. And the governing system of Iran is an Islamic republic, which maintains independence and democracy, and it will be announced according to Islamic standards and laws, and soon we will officially resort this suggestion to the people's votes, and anyone, or any group disagreeing with these triple suggestions, will not be with us and the Iranian nation.
2. In order to achieve this holy goal, it is necessary to continue the Islamic movement in all its dimensions:
a. Continuing strikes in all government divisions with the same goal mentioned in paragraph one;
b. Supporting the strikes of all government employees; especially the employees and workers of the national oil company, and preventing the wastage of this great resource, and continuing the strikes till achieving the Islamic goal;
c. Offering financial assistance to those suffering losses due to the strikes, including the brave merchants and the religious and deprived laborers and workers, and the respectable employees, and helping the continuation of the strikes among all groups.
3. It is for the top officials, and the air force, army and navy high ranking officers, to join the people along with their soldiers; for obeying the Shah would be obeying the devil. And the soldiers and other disciplinary forces are to disobey orders when they are against the course of the nation's will; for obeying such orders is against the glorious Qur'an and the Prophet of Islam (s), and Imam of the Age [Imam al-`Asr] (may God expedite his glorious advent). «1» And it is for the wives and children of the army and other disciplinary forces to stop them from opposing the nation, and imposing cruelty and injustice on their Islamic sisters and brothers, and castigate them for these ruthless behaviors, for all these cruelties will have bad consequences for them. I thank the noble and brave nation of Iran, who boldly and consistently demolished the battlements of the palace of cruelty one after another, and heroically broke this satanic idol.
My dears! Be patient, because the final victory is eminent and God is with the patient. Gratify yourselves and the children of the future generation, because the today's Iran is the place for the freeborn; and do not allow weakness and fear to enter your mind- which you won't do- and do not listen to the satanic temptations of the affiliates of the brutal system. You, the nation of Iran, and your ambitions and courage are proverbial among people of the world and freedom fighters. I have my hopes up for you from so far away, and will offer whatever is in my power to serve you, which is serving God; and will deliver your voice of seeking freedom and independence to the world, as I always have. And will pray to God, the Exalted, for the health and magnificence of you great and noble nation. And may God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini
Dhou'l-Hijjah 4,1398 AH