Speech [Factors for victory; sabotage of the small groups; importance of culture]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

This is a reality that we must confess that it was a strong and impregnable citadel that we conquered. It was a huge stronghold, which was hard to destroy, but it was destroyed. A barehanded nation defeated the superpowers that were armed to the teeth. However, I was not the one who gave you the victory. It was the Almighty God. When I was in Paris, I heard about the union of all the people in all cities, far and near, from the villages to the big cities, chanting" Down with Pahlavi monarchy and yes to Islamic Revolution". There, I grasped that this is done by the Hand of the Unseen. Man cannot acquire this unity all by himself. The scope of the activities of the human beings is limited. There may be unity of expression in a city or at the most in a province, but its establishment in a country with a population of 30 million people or so, with all the oppositions in ideals, understanding, and insight was only the Act of God and the Hand of the Unseen. The Almighty and Blessed God made such a change in the minds of the people through the Imam of the Time, may God's peace be upon him. Since that time, disappointment has found no way into my heart. I became very hopeful that the victory was ahead. Of course, I never expected the victory to be achieved so easily and so soon. A nation who had nothing to fight with against the satanic powers, such as the United States and United Kingdom for sure, and USSR as a supporter,[became victorious]; all the satanic powers had united their forces to fight the nation. However, the Divine forces were at work. No one can fight the Blessed and Almighty God. There were the Unseen Hands of the Blessed and Almighty God, and as long as these Hands support you, you are victorious.

Do your best to safeguard this movement as is. Keep it as active as it is if you want to be an independent and free country standing on its own feet and administering its own affairs, and finish the path of victory, you must safeguard the key to victory. The key to victory was attending to God. People from brought up youth used to come to me and ask me earnestly to pray for their martyrdom. This was the Grace of God. The human being could not bring about this change. A spiritual transformation happened in our people, a spiritual change took place, and this was an Act of God, a Grace of God. A nation who feared to oppose a police and defend its rights when he appeared in the bazaar and ordered either installing flags or closing down, grew so much spiritually well in such a short time, that they poured onto the streets and chanted" down with such and such." They neglected artillery and machine guns and the satanic forces. It was a Divine transformation. Do something to prevent its annihilation. Do not allow the disappearance of what the nation took hold of. Safeguard your unity of expression; increase your attending to God, direct your spirits toward God. Repel the Satan among you who want to sow the seeds of discord. Guide them if they deserve otherwise repel them. The United States is still coveting Iran, the Iranian oil, the Iranian oil reservoirs. It cannot renounce, nor can the other nations.

If you want to make these eyes blind and cut these hands short, you must keep this key to victory and safeguard it. The key is attending to God. All of you say one thing unanimously; seek Islam, not polytheism, and only Islam. If we lose this key, God forbid, these Satan among the people who are agents of the United States and other nations, will start a tumult and will prevent the agricultural work, and the production of the factories. They do not permit the opening of schools. If these agents get among in your lines and you become inactive and listen to them, and if our youth become ignorant and follow them in their marches and demonstrations against the Revolution at a time that they must not if, God forbid, these active agents who want to push the people astray by their satanic aspirations succeed in their mission, I am afraid that the previous conditions will return; I am afraid that the suppression of the nation will return again, and we will lose the independence we have acquired.

My dear ones! Wake up and identify those who have entered among all strata of the people. If they are really sympathizing with the pains of the nation, then why do not they let the people enjoy peace? Why do they prevent the referendum? The referendum was a national issue, why did they set fire to the ballot boxes. Why did they prevent the people from voting? Why did they boycott the referendum? «1» The referendum belonged to the nation, it was not related to the taghouti regime, and it was not related to the foreigners; it was related to this nation. Why did they prevent it? Why do not they want the agricultural section to work? They are wandering around the villages, making corruption, and preventing the agricultural section from working. Why do not they let the factories work? This is because the agricultural work and the factories will bring about peace and when peace is enjoyed in the country the hands of their masters will be cut short. They want to have the hands of their masters in this country. They want to return the past situation, yet in another form, because monarchy has no way to return, however in other satanic forms. Pay attention to this; anyone in anywhere should repel these elements.

God willing, when the Islamic government is established, we must join hands to remove the shortcomings, the most important of which is culture. Culture is the cornerstone of the nation; it is the basis of the identity of a nation, the basis of the independence of a nation. However, they have tried to make our culture colonial. They did their best to prevent the emergence of humanity. They feared human beings and they feared learned man. They did their best to prevent the appearance of the elite during their 50 and so years of monarchy. They did such harm to education such that there was neither education nor humanistic growth. They frightened us, they frightened us by their subversive propaganda such that we feared one another and did not trust one another. If someone fell sick, we would send him abroad while we had physicians here in Iran. They frightened us, shook us, and emptied us so hard that if we wanted to asphalt a road we used to send for foreigners. We had everything but the foreigners were the ones to manage the affairs of our army. The foreigners were the ones to exploit our oil, at a time that we had everything at our disposal. This was because they emptied us from what we were, they brainwashed us, and destroyed our self-reliance. Brothers! Bring up your youth by self-trust and by spiritual independence. Teachers! Train the youth to be independent and free. Make them self-reliant. We have everything but they made us to make believe we have nothing. We repelled them bare-handedly; therefore, we have the ability. We feared a colonel, we feared a police officer, but you saw that our youth did not fear artillery and tanks. Thus we have ... we have God. As long as there is reliance upon God, as long as there is attending to God, as long as you keep the spirit of courage, you will be victorious. I beseech the Almighty God for success and happiness of all of you and all strata of the people. I pray for you and I am a servant of you all.

May God's peace and mercy be upon you.