In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Dhou'l-Hijjah 14,1398 AH
My and the nation's greetings to the workers and employees of the Iranian National Oil Company! May God, the Exalted, have mercy on you, the alert people who have made the nation proud by your strike! Every day and every hour of your strike is precious and grinding; precious for Iran's looted people, because you have stopped the flow of this black gold and the country's abundant resources that have been looted by the traitors, and robbed by the oil-guzzlers for years, and that you have prevented the squandering of this poor nation's possessions as much as possible; and that you have crushed the traitors who consider their giving away the country as a backing for the survival of their devilish rule and their shaky satanic throne. Every hour of your strike is a service to God, the Exalted, and to the country of Islam. Those who try to break this noble strike by force are criminals, servants of the foreigners, and traitors to the nation and country.
When the workers and employees of the National Oil Company and other government establishments and departments are on strike, it is on the noble nation of Iran to support them respectfully, and to compensate for their losses in the best manner, and to encourage and appreciate them in their noble strike, which is done to express hatred toward the treacherous Shah and his filthy dynasty, and to support the people's general struggles.
The illegal military government is trying to return people to their normal condition by the force of bayonets; unaware of the fact that the nation's satisfaction can't be fulfilled by bayonets. These bayonets will eventually cause a huge explosion. The brutal military government is the final option the Shah has resorted to, in order to save himself. This government also won't last long either; because this system has putrefied from the inside.
Filthy and treacherous supporters of the Shah, try to scare people of the Shah's departure and the gap that will be created afterwards! We must see what shortcomings the presence of the Shah completed and what gap has it filled. What has the Shah filled except the pockets of foreigners, himself and his greedy relatives? God willing, these traitors will be punished sooner or later.
America should know that if they want to preserve the military government by force, and to put our unprotected people under their mercenaries' shower of bullets every day and night, and if they want to put pressure on our respectful employees and deprived workers of the Oil Company who are for the Shah's departure, then strategies shall be formed for the oil wells, where our precious resources would last for the generations to come. America must reconsider its support of the Shah. American politicians should warn their own government of these oppressive and anti-human rights policies which are against the interests of the American people.
Our holy Islamic movement has put an end to the lootings and dictatorships in Iran. The officials who open fire on the nation must know that the victory of the nation is imminent, and its revenge from the traitors is harsh; the Shah's commitments and promises are weak and the nation's revolutionary wrath is dreadful. And they must know that the Shah, in order to survive, may put them on trial and imprison them, as he did his loyal servants.
I thank all fronts, educators, traders and merchants, the Oil Company, telecommunications (company), transportation company, the press, and other government and private institutions for their strikes, which were to save their country and serve Islam and the Muslims. And I respectfully and humbly request the distinguished clergy all over the country- may God exalt their words- who are the guides to the path of deliverance, and the pioneers of the great Islamic movement, and a strong barrier against the superpowers of the East and the West, and servants- may our souls be their ransom- to compensate for the losses of any kind, that the indigent stratum, who have always been the pioneers of our civil struggles, have and will sustain in the struggles, from the blessed share of contributions to Imam (`a) and religious funds. I thank the noble nation of Iran, particularly the clergy, for the hardship they are going through. May God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini