In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Muharram 28,1399 AH
Honorable Dr. Mahdi Bazargan:
Greetings and salutations; as you are informed, in order to cooperate and assist the struggles of the Muslim nation of Iran and to prevent the export of Iranian oil, the respected workers and employees of the oil company have gone on strike, but the usurping and illegal military government is out to break the strikes through its savage attack, force and intimidation to continue the plunder of oil. Also despite the fact that oil and oil products are being produced for domestic consumption, their distribution inside the country are prevented and attempts are made to put more pressure on the people to create more hardship for them. In order to confront such plans of the usurping government and also to meet the people's needs, the materialization of the following conditions is necessary:
1. The security and military forces should evacuate the oil regions and centers, not interfere in such affairs and refrain from intimidating the employees.
2. Oil and oil products should be produced only as much as they are needed for domestic consumption and their exports be completely stopped until the collapse of the illegal regime.
3. The army and the military personnel do not have any right to hoard the oil products, which are produced for domestic consumption and such acts must be prevented.
Given the above issues, it is exigent that you- having great experience and a good record in the management of the gigantic oil industries- appoint a five-member committee, consisting of His Eminence Hujjat al-Islam Haj Shaykh Akbar Hashimi Rafsanjani, Honorable Engineer Mustafa Katira'i and two other persons of your choice in consultation with the gentlemen. The committee, under your supervision, should visit the oil regions and supervise the production of oil in the light of the materialization of the abovementioned conditions. While imparting the gratitude of the Iranian nation to the laborious workers and respected employees to them, invite some of them to resume their work and resume the oil production for the domestic consumption. Mention the above conditions to the employees and workers and if the usurping government violates any of the said conditions, the flow of oil should be completely stopped and they should join the other strikers. And thus the usurping, illegal government will be held responsible for the consequences of the severance of the flow of oil. The management of the oil industry is expected to render its sincere and all-out cooperation with the committee in this vital and significant task.
I beseech the Almighty God for the independence and glory of the country and success of the nation in attaining freedom and independence. May peace be upon you.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini