Speech [Necessity of preparedness and alertness; the duties of the period of the Islamic Revolution]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Everything was the same as what this gentleman read. What is significant is our deed. Some issues are quite clear. We all know that we have reached this very point by paying attention to Islamic directives as well as maintaining our unity of expression. We know that if there be no unity of expression among us, if there be no attention to Islam, we will not progress. Every thing is obvious theoretically, but we should implement these theories. A nation who has put aside all the fears of tanks and machineguns, military men and started a movement considering the Islamic directives, and defeated the enemy with the aid of the Almighty God, should also preserve the movement. It means that we are the guards of the Islamic Revolution and should be servers of Islam. We should not just recite slogans and refrain from working. If there was just slogans and not action, we could not have defeated the government. The people became united to defeat the government and our nation relied on God and became victorious, we still need that unity, action, and reliance on God. Moreover, it is not such that we have completely become victorious. We broke a barrier, but the remnants do still exist. We should destroy the remnants and cut the roots. Yet the more difficult task is to arrange and manage the current situation in the country. We should repair the ruins, which occurred in all aspects of culture, economy etc. during fifty odd years. We should repair and reform all these after the total victory. And this should be done with the cooperation of all the people. Neither the government, nor the clerics, nor other people in the society can do this alone. If a single part of the society wanted to rise up and start a movement, it would be impossible, but it became true, by paying attention to spirituality and Islam, although the materialists deemed it impossible.

We should practically do what should be done. We should eliminate all those corrupt elements that are distributed among the people in the society, those who do not want the movement to become victorious. After doing so we should renovate and reconstruct our country, and we should work for that. We should not just promise words; we should act. Up to now, we have progressed by action. Just promising words was of no use.

We should all be united; all the youth, men and women should be united, as they were when they broke the barrier. They should not become weak and they should not think about their needs.

Of course, at the current time, we cannot satisfy all the needs. We should ignore and forget our needs at the current time, just as when we wanted to break that big barrier that was against our nation. In those days, no one was thinking about having a house or something else; if there were such thinking at that time, we would not have progressed. Everyone was thinking just about overthrowing the regime. They were just concentrating on the point that the regime is a betrayer and that it should be overthrown and an Islamic government should be established. Just as before breaking that big dam, we were ignorant toward our needs, and this ignorance compelled us toward our destination, because, we were just thinking about our goal, we should now be the same as before, because we have not reached our destination yet, and it is so far.

Our nation should still be ready, and preserve its motives. Our nation should neglect what the foreign agents spread among the people. Our nation should prevent those who intend to prevent the works from progressing, until the movement becomes victorious. The movement should not be left in the middle of its way, it should be finished. A government should be established, a Majlis should be created, not like the Majlises in the previous regime of which the people were ignorant of what was going on there. A Majlis should be established through which the people can hold the country's destinies in their hands. When all these are done, then the people should think about their needs.

Many people, groups come here and say that they live in a deprived region, they have no medical center, they do not have roads, they do not have pure water etc. I ask them, whether these problems occurred during the revolution, or do they belong to the Pahlavi regime. For sure, all of these problems belong to Pahlavi regime. As soon as those who have caused these ruins left, should we repair all of them at once? It is impossible. We did something in which that former regime was overthrown, assume that we can do nothing else, you should do something yourself. Of course, I do not mean that we can do nothing. God willing we will arrange everything. But, it requires a national and Divine endeavor. Both the government and the nation should work and at the same time should have tolerance. The nation should be patient on the attacks that are targeted at it. The nation should be patient about its problems. The nation should know that these problems and poverty belong to the Pahlavi era, and the nation should be patient until the government can recover the economy, and can revive agriculture and factories get on working so that everything become reformed.

The very point that some groups come and say that we are poor, is doubtlessly created by some secret elements, by those who want the people to be faced with the same problems, those who keep saying" so what? The Islamic Republic is established and again you do not have a good road. And do not have a good paving." As if, in case an Islamic government is established in a place, all the problems should be solved at once.

Our nation should know that those who say," so what? The Islamic Republic has also failed to do something", they want us to do nothing at all, and they are not of those who want this country to progress. They are well aware of what is going on in the country, and they are not ignorant. They are the agents of those governments who have investigated the situation in Iran. They intend to create dissatisfaction wherever they are. They go to villages for example, and say that the Islamic Republic has done nothing for you. The poor villager cannot tell him that one of the Islamic government's achievements for us is that we are not afraid of the government any more; we are not concerned that the government may oppress us. Is not it the best achievement of the Islamic government? We assume that nothing has been done in Iran; well, the very point is a good achievement. Freedom is the best blessing of God for the human being.

Those who come and say," What has been done," they are not ignorant. They know that the foreign powers have been banished from the country. They know that a miracle has happened that the foreign powers hands have been severed. What should they do to make the foreign powers return to the country? They come and say nothing has changed in the Islamic government. They know that the satanic power is defeated and know that our oil belongs to ourselves, and we use it ourselves. They know that the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and the other superpowers can no longer interfere in Iran's domestic affairs, even if their agents are active in the country. Nevertheless, they cannot directly interfere in Iran's domestic affairs, as they did in the past.

They know all these. They are not ignorant. They are experts in their own profession. They are educated. They are trained by the foreign powers, to serve them in such occasions. They intend to convince the public opinion to think that they have overthrown the Pahlavi regime to which the nation voted `No, ' but the Islamic republic government to which the nation has voted `Yes, ' is not yet established. They say all of you voted for the establishment of an Islamic republic government, but it is not yet established. They fear that the Islamic republic government be established. They fear and intend to prevent the formation of such a government, as they wanted to prevent the people from voting. Based on the reports, they burned some of the ballot boxes. They went to voting places with weapons to prevent the people from voting. But the people were eager to vote, so why did they want to prevent them from voting? The reason is that, they were well aware of the fact that they will be deprived of all their illegal privileges. Now that they see the people have voted for what they had wanted, they want to prevent the formation of the Islamic government. They think of going among the people and telling them" what has happened? Nothing has changed." They want to create dissatisfaction. They prevent a group of workers and a group of farmers from their work; they prevent the schools and universities from working. They do not want the country to become arranged. But, when the movement was started, no one was concerned about his own problems

In those days when the people rushed into the streets reciting the slogans" death to that foreign power, etc", no one was thinking about his having dinner at night or not. It was the high spirit of the people, which led to victory. They want to destroy this high spirit. Now again, the people are thinking about what they have and what they do not have." Well, what happened? I want a house, etc."

We now want to build houses for the needy, but they do not want to let them do so. They want to call you the" weak" but do not accept it. They understand what" weak" means they explained it to you in a bad way. We are all weak. We were those who were always underestimated by the superpowers. We want to put an end to all these. They say that we want to build houses for the weak are you the weak? No, you are not. They want to create differences, and want to prevent Iran from becoming arranged, and save their hands from being severed forever.

You, the youth and the Iranian nation, who have continued the movement so far, should not listen to what the agents of the foreign powers say and waste the sacrifices of those who have been killed during the movement. If the academicians, if the farmers, if the factory workers, and if we all listen to what they say, we will find out that the meaning behind it is the return of the same foreigners, plundering our everything, and the same oppressing and tyrannizing. Again, they will put a puppet ruler in the country that will be worse than the previous one.

Do not suppose that the next puppet ruler would be like the previous one and as much of tyrant as he was. No, if God forbid, we face a situation like the previous one, he will skin alive all of the forerunners of the movement, because they have known the strength of the guards of the nation. They will first kill the youth, who caused them a lot of suffering, and then the rest of the people. The farmers should not complain about the lack of water, because it was present in the past, what is more God has given you enough rain this year. Factories should not think about the lack of facilities; it was like that since the first; people should not think about owning a house; they were such from the past.

The people should become united to continue the movement, to establish the just Islamic government. When the Islamic government is established, the people should not say that now the government is Islamic so give us everything; we would consider other things. The nation should know that the government is working, but as the problems are so many, solving all of them requires a lot of time.

If we neglect our main target, which is uprooting the remnants of colonialism in our country, and neglect cutting these roots, they will become a huge tree and will cut our roots. Do not neglect these. Do not pay attention to your private problems. Consider your country first. We should first reform our country and then our houses. God forbid that we become deceived by them. Their negative propagation is to the benefit of their masters but bring us down to earth. They come among you and say, `what has changed? ' and their main objective is to prevent the continuation of the movement. When they are totally uprooted, and when an Islamic government is established, we will consider other problems.

I have some problems too. All of the people have problems. But it is not the time to mourn for them. Now it is the time to say," God is the greatest" and to move forward. We should all be alert. The enemies are all alert. They go to the universities, to the factories and prevent them from working. They are alert. They know what they are doing. They are working upon a specific plan. You should be alert. The nation should be alert. They should consider the main subjects first. They should not pay attention to secondary matters and neglect the main issues.

May God save all of you the guards of the Islam. We are proud of you. You are those who have proved their objectives in their lives to the world. You proved to the world that Iran is alive, that Iran is a country that can depend on its own capabilities, that Iran is a country who can prevent those who intend to rob its resources. May God give you greater power. May God make us familiar with our Islamic and national duties. Peace be upon all of you.