[In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful]
Destruction and backwardness
I thank you for your show of affection. May God bless you with prosperity. I hope that at this sensitive moment that our country is in a great predicament all the gentlemen here, all walks of life and guilds of the people will help each other, and, God willing, rebuild anew this country, which has been destroyed by these people (the Shah's henchmen) who abandoned it and ran away. At the present time, everything in our country has been reduced to ruins. On the one hand, they had kept the universities backward and never allowed students to be trained properly; and on the other, they had thrown them into disarray; and retarded the growth of the rest of educators.
They had transformed the press in such a way that some of its pages were for the dissemination of corruption! They had destroyed the rest of the country including the economy, the military and everything we had. Most important of all, they had squandered the human power. In order to inveigle the youth into using addictive stuff, they scattered opium and heroin and lured them to it. They built centers of prostitution and dragged the youth into them.
Cinemas were metamorphosed into vulgar centers toward which they had dragged the youth. They had completely corrupted our youth. On the one hand, they had devastated our economy, and on the other, our agriculture was reduced to nothing. They had squandered our oil, and in exchange, they brought for us scrap iron, which benefited them (Americans).
All together on the road to reconstruction
We have to rebuild our country anew and this cannot be accomplished by the government alone, or by some groups of the nation. Everybody should partake in this. If all the people join hands, this country will be delivered from this chaos and confusion, God willing. As you have witnessed yourselves, when you joined hands, you were able to overcome the powers.
The retreat of the superpowers before the closed fists of the masses
You should know that behind this man, «1» who had held power here and was backed by the military, all the world's superpowers such as the USSR and America queued up in support albeit some of them explicitly and some implicitly like Britain, China and the Arab countries. However, the nation clenched its fist, rose and pushed everybody back, and made that person who, if given the chance would have laid claim to being a pharaoh and a god stand in abjection and repent! But the nation did not accept it and said," No! You have to leave!" Now he is gone and America will not accept him (into the US)! Now he is in Rabat. «2» Where? Somewhere he is sitting and flouncing about, but all his nerves are shattered; that is you have wrecked his nerves, you have struck his nerves with your fists. Now go ahead, clench your fists, and jab into the brains of these people who want to keep this totem. Now this totem has been reduced to nothing. They should be sensible. Is it ever possible to oppose a nation?! One nation is not one or two persons, nor is it one or two parties. One nation wants something. Is it possible that the nation does not get what it wants from these people (the regime)?
I implore God, the Blessed and Exalted, to grant you health. May you all be successful, God willing.