[In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful]
Brain drain
May God protect you all. I hope that these skilled people who are the most important resource a country has and whose skills are now mostly being utilised abroad at Iran's expense will return to serve their own country.
This is another loss in addition to the material and spiritual losses, which our nation has had to sustain because of the Shah. The environment in Iran has been made such that the Iranians themselves, those people who are useful to the country, cannot remain in Iran. Unfortunately, many of the physicians, doctors, engineers and others who could be of service to Iran, who could administer the country's affairs, spend their time abroad because of the problems which exist in Iran and which have been brought about by the Shah.
Only today, two physicians who had come to see me from America told me that there were about twenty thousand Iranian physicians and their families living in America. They said that they had been there so long that their children had been brought up there and (many) did not understand the Persian language. These people constitute a force and they should be in Iran using their abilities for the benefit of Iran. However, because of the repression which exists in Iran and because the people have had enough of the situation in Iran, many skilled individuals have left the country. And now much of our skilled workforce is being wasted in foreign countries. These skilled people should be serving their own country. I hope that this movement which has started in Iran and all the citizens of Iran who have risen and who seek freedom and independence will, God willing, be successful and these skilled Iranians who make up a huge force abroad will return to serve their own country.
Iranian revolutionary nation's ideals
I hope that you young people who are abroad now will unite with the people back home and inform those in the countries where you reside of the situation in Iran. There is much propaganda being put about by the Shah and his family. They present the situation in Iran in a bad cloak and misrepresent the people's demands. Perhaps many foreigners are of the opinion that the Iranians are complaining now because they have been given such extensive freedoms, as indeed Carter would have them believe, and perhaps many of them think that the Iranians are sedition-mongers and barbarians! Whereas in fact they are only after freedom, which every human being desires, and independence, which everybody wants. They want to cut short the arms of the foreigners that are stretched out against their land. They want the economy of their country to be in their own hands. They want to administer their educational system independently. They don't want their army to be administered by others. They don't want American advisers to come to Iran and take possession of the army; they want to get rid of the American bases in their country. They want a free and independent country. The call of the people of Iran is that they want a government of Islamic justice to do away with all the corruption.
The mission of Iranians abroad to spread the message
I hope that you young people abroad will get the message of the Iranian people across to your American, Italian, British, and French friends and make them understand that it is these things that the Iranian nation wants and the people are not shouting out because they have been given too much freedom! No, this is not the case. They are shouting out because of the repression, which exists in Iran. Even now as this man goes on about how he has granted freedom and so on, the newspapers are suppressed, the radio station is in the hands of the military, the country is in a state of emergency, and the military and the bayonet prevail throughout Iran. There is no peace in Iran now. Every day there are killings and every day there are arrests. Even now, as I was informed by telephone from Iran, demonstrations are taking place in Mashhad for the murders which were committed yesterday and about which I have little information at present.
May God grant you all success. I pray to God that you all return to your homeland, to a safe, independent and free homeland. May God assist you.[The audience replies with" God willing" and a s alawat].