Interviewer: a German reporter
Question: [What will happen to the Germans residing in Iran if the conditions within Iran change and the Islamic republic comes to power?]
Answer: They will be treated humanely, and if they pay regard to our national interests, they will suffer absolutely no losses.
Q: [What will happen to German industrial investments?]
A: If the investments belong to them, they will be protected and no one will be treated oppressively.
Q: [As Your Eminence Ayatullah is aware, the Shah has signed some agreements with the Germans and foreigners in the name of the Iranian nation. Will a new government, led by Your Eminence Ayatullah, continue these agreements? What would happen to these agreements?]
A: Those contracts that are consonant with the national interests will remain valid.
Q: [As you are aware, there have been some investments made in Germany in the name of Iran. What will happen to these investments?]
A: They belong to the country and nation of Iran, and the future government will do what would be in the nation's interest.
Q: [How the freedom of women in the future government will be? Will they have to leave schools and stay at home or will they have the chance to continue their educations?]
A: What you have heard about women and other issues are all propaganda spread by the Shah and the biased people. Women are free; they are also free in regard to education and they are free in other things as men are. It is now that neither women nor men are free.