In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
I do not know how I can ever compensate for all the efforts you have taken. I have not performed any service that merits your satisfaction. And I implore God to grant us the honor to be able to serve this country and the Islamic tenets.
Safeguarding American interests with slogans of" nationalism"
Today is the day that the phase we have toed reaches a sensitive stage in a way that has engendered a divine task for all of us. We are all duty-bound at this stage, which is a matter of life and death, from the very beginning up to the end, not to ever be negligent. One person's negligence may prove to be costly. Now is the time that chicaneries are underway and they want to toy with the Iranian nation and us in any way possible. Today, once again they are saying," We want to give freedom, we want to give you this and that, so please give us time! The same words the Shah would say, the same ruses the Shah would resort to, but to which we never listened, are being asseverated by his servant. «1» They want to bring back the same power; they are the servants of America; these people want to safeguard American interests in the name of nationalism, in the name of Islam, in the name of tribalism, in the name of the nation, and in the name of service; they want to give away your resources to the foreigners; they want you to be in captivity.
In the pathway of reaching an Islamic rule
Now is a time that negligence is tantamount to self-destruction and suicide. We should not be negligent (of our duties); this movement must be perpetuated. Streets should be packed with crowds of people. With awareness, all the people should take to the streets and excise this rotten core (of power). Almost nothing of it is left except a tiny fragment- something insubstantial- and with the perseverance of you, the Muslim people and the persistence of the Iranian nation this too must be eradicated completely for us to achieve an Islamic rule, a just government, and a government wherein your interests will be neither usurped nor doled out to foreigners. This is the kind of government we want: an Islamic national government, a republic that is reliant upon the popular vote to be cast by the people in a free election unlike these past fifty years when nobody was free in anything; unlike these last thirty years when all of us were held in captivity and plunged into misery and suffering; our interests, the (resources) that we had, our treasury house was plundered and everything in it was devoured. Even now, our treasury money exists as a deposit in foreign banks in the name of Muhammad Rida Khan and his family and those who are related to him. All our wealth has been plundered. They impoverished a nation and then left and escaped.
Unity of expression: the key to victory
We would like to express our gratitude to you, young people, for rising at this moment in time with all your power and might, with determination and divine will. You relinquished all your own affairs and pursued this great task, which is incumbent upon all of us. The key to your victory is your unity of expression and your striving after one goal. Now all the nations, that is the Iranian nation in every city, every village and hamlet is pursuing the same goal: not the annihilation of the Shah, or the destruction of this regime or the extirpation of the usurping government but the establishment of an Islamic rule and an Islamic republic which will be so, God willing.
I would like to thank all of you gentlemen who have taken efforts, and these efforts have all been for your own servant. I am your servant. I want you all to be endeared. I am the nation's servant. I want the nation to be proud and independent, not like today when everything we've got came from another place; and all our political affairs are devised; likewise our economic affairs are drawn up by somebody else; and our cultural affairs are programmed by somebody else; our military is controlled by somebody else- that is, by foreign advisers. I want you all to be independent and crush and hurl these remnants which have remained of colonialism and which are plundering the treasury in the name of" nationalism." God willing, the establishment of an Islamic rule is nigh.