In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
The Pahlavi dynasty oppressing the women and the clergy
I can say that during the days of this father and son, the women were oppressed more than the other strata of the people. The majority of you perhaps do not remember what they did to the women during the time of Rida Shah. How much misery they created in the name of making Iran like Europe, for example; making Iran modern and bringing half of the population into the society. You are not aware what they did to the women. In those days, they oppressed two groups more than the others: one group constituted the women, whom they oppressed so much for this reason and the other, the clergy. The two groups were mistreated more than the others in Rida Shah's time. They compelled the women to attend the kind of parties they held. They obliged the men to bring their wives and daughters to those corrupt parties. These things happened even in Qum- Qum that was the seat of the clergy- and in all the provinces.
They did not want the population of Iran to increase a half because they did not want the people to be as they should. They did not want the women to be emancipated because the men were also not free in their time. Neither were the women free nor the men. They saw freedom in other things which were full of corruption. They saw freedom in the men and women stripping by the seaside and swimming naked together, and gathering in the centers of prostitution, indulge freely- in their own words- in whatever they wanted to do. They completely did away with human training in Iran. They made the Western kind of training customary in our country; not the correct kind of Western training, but the corrupt one. Most of the spiritualities were perhaps destroyed in the time of this son. In his time, more oppression perhaps emerged and more of it was evident. They persecuted the women more. They troubled all the people more.
During their reign, they greatly destroyed the country's spirituality. They did not allow intellectual development to take place. They ruined this country in the name of" civilization" and in the name of the" great civilization". They ruined everything of it; especially its human resources. The treachery they did to our country in this respect was greater than what they did to its economy, or to its army, or to its education. They did not allow our workforce to develop; they did not allow education to progress; they did not allow our youth to develop. Whatever they did was against the interests of the country. Now that they have gone, they have left behind so many debts they owe the banks that it is not known whether the government will be able to clear them. They took away everything from the country, leaving behind devastation.
You ladies who took part in this movement- may God protect you- should also take part in it henceforth, and take it forward. And it is also important that you train your children well. They wanted the women to be like that so that their children would be separated from them; to drag them to the offices, not for the sake of improving the work in them, but one reason being to render the offices corrupt and another one, to separate the children from their mothers. The children, who are away from their mothers from the very outset, develop a complex. Many of the corrupt practices stem from these complexes that the children develop. Protect your children well, train them well. It is the children that save their country. Bring them up in the Islamic way. Bring them up so that they develop virtue and faith as they grow up which would enable them to serve this country. May God make all of you prosperous and make you useful to your country, God willing.