Speech [Victory can be gained only through the collaboration of all strata of the people]

[ In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

The gentlemen working in hospitals have suffered more than the rest of the people and even those in the streets. Those in the streets have witnessed how young people were hit and felled by bullets, but those who were at their bedside (of those injured in hospitals) knew fully well what had happened. Perhaps their fathers and mothers came to the hospital, that is, if they were given the consent (to see their injured sons), and you have seen in what an emotional state they were. All those who were injured, wounded and killed and those, who were taken away, and whom you have not seen are safe in the sight of God.

This nation's only fault was that it did not want the foreigners to take control of its country. Its fault was that it wanted to be free and wanted suppression to die out; it wanted to kick out the plunderers. These were the faults of this nation that became, and still are, the target of machine-gun fire. Just a few days ago, the same acts were committed in provincial towns.

Each day these people, that is, the agents of the foreign powers, don a different mask or a different disguise behind the curtain. For twenty or thirty years, their agents posed as nationalistic individuals whose true positions were not obvious to the nation! When their true face was revealed, the nation would understand who they really were. For twenty years, an agent might have posed as a nationalistic or a religious figure and enjoyed all security, and the powers protected him in case one day they might find a need for him as a weapon to thrash the nation as they are doing today. They are now thrashing the nation under the guise of nationalism and by going to Dr. Musaddiq's grave. Sharif Imami rushed forward with such" peaceful rapprochement" and attacked the nation; they all came forth with such a weapon. Now this nation came pouring into the streets shouting in unison, as they did nationwide yesterday, that it wanted the new government. They do not consider the nation's ideas! For them the nation is the one that America recognizes, if ever America recognizes the nationality of anybody! And of course, it recognizes someone if he preserves its interests. Now these people are saying that they are nationalistic, obedient to the nation and respect the vote of the nation [No]. Was yesterday's (rally) not a proof of the nation's vote? Yesterday a few million people were shouting. Were they not the nation? It still is not the nation that America and its agents believe it should be. The" nation" they are referring to is one which will give all its resources to America and the foreigners!

You who were in the hospitals know what this nation has gone through. But you know only a small part (of the whole massacre), and the other part by those in other hospitals. Most of them have been hidden from your and your brothers' eyes. They have committed so many crimes and looted so much that most of them have been concealed from us. We cannot fully understand what crimes they have committed.

There is a story somebody has told me, or perhaps I have read in a magazine, I do not remember exactly, which says that one of Muhammad Rida's sisters bought a mansion abroad the price of which I do not know. But it was written there that six million dollars was spent on planting flowers in its garden! They have done such acts of which we are uninformed and ignorant. Six million dollars! It is equal to approximately thirty-two million tumans just for planting garden flowers! They have plundered everything that we had, and left. How much he, his relatives and their generals has stolen! They have emptied the treasury and decimated the country, and left us with a ruined country and ran away.

May God reward you who have strived for this nation and have endured hardships. I know fully well how hard it had been for you to attend to those helpless victims who were beaten up, injured, some of them in the throes of death and some who breathed their last, but God will reward you. God knows what you have been through and He will compensate you for it. May God grant you health. Our friends should all collaborate with each other in this affair and be united in this movement. If you are defeated in this movement then defeat is till the end. Everybody should stay together and collaborate until victory is attained.