Speech [The need to focus on reconstructing Iran and nullifying the plots to create differences between the tribes]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

You gentlemen must know how the situation in your country was like during the previous times and how it is now; and God willing, how it shall be later. I am especially aware of the injustices done to the Bakhtiyari tribes and the injustices that their khans committed against them; of the injustices they did to the tribes. Know that they did injustice not only to you; the entire country was oppressed. All were under pressure; all were repressed. Centers such as Tehran, Qum and the centers of learning were under pressure. The inhabitants of Tehran were perhaps under greater pressure than you; maybe the residents of Qum were under greater pressure than you. It was not a problem that was exclusively yours. Nevertheless, you witnessed in your own area how much injustice had been done; and we too saw in the Qum area how much injustice has been done to them. By the grace of God, those hands have been amputated and those injustices shall not return. I hope that this favor which God, the Blessed and Exalted, has granted to us and has liberated us from the subjugations; and freed our country from the hands of others saved us from the hands of foreigners, will remain until the end and your country will remain in your own hands. This is a great blessing that God, the Blessed and Exalted, gave us and amputated the hands of this treacherous regime and the plunderers, but they took away with them everything that was there. Now, there are huge debts in the banks that the government has been left with; and these are the loans that they had taken and kept something as security deposit and fled; we must build everything from scratch.

This Iran must be reconstructed by all of us joining hands; and the reconstruction of a vast country such as Iran requires first and foremost security, secondly a budget allocation, and finally activity. Each place must be the responsibility of that region.

You the Bakhtiyari tribes who from the beginning were well-known for your bravery and fighting spirit, must also now strive not to allow corrupt elements to arrive there and sow discord among the tribal youth so that suddenly you become aware that there is discord within the tribe itself; or for instance, they sow discord between your tribe and another tribe and cause you to confront one another. Now, these corrupt elements are afraid lest Iran becomes a stable country and an Islamic rule of justice is established. They are trying to sow discord wherever they are- in the cities, in the villages, in the provinces, and in the factories. They must be forestalled. You should take care of your own regions, and protect them so that security is established and that this government that is to be installed is installed.

Now, we have an unstable government. It is now an interim government; and God willing, later the Consultative Assembly will be formed. Your legislators; the legislators of the nation will come and they will present plans and God willing, those problems shall be resolved. These difficulties that you are facing are being faced by all the strata of the people. Even in this Tehran that you see, there are localities that do not have drinking water, asphalted roads- they have nothing. But you must give some time for this instability that is now present; and these remnants that are leftover from the former regime; and these deviant elements that are now present in Iran- this is a problem for the government that prevents the progress of work. God willing, these shall be overcome. They shall be overcome by the power of the nation itself.

God willing, at the countrywide level; first the priority is for those who were not taken care of. The plan is to provide health and hygiene; asphalted roads, electricity, and water for all. Now it is not like before that only the cities are taken care of and the villages are forgotten. Now, it shall begin from the villages; and I hope that these things will be reformed in a short time. You who were under pressure for fifty plus years must be patient a little more so that God willing, things get moving. Do not be under the impression that you will not be attended to. No, the problem is that there is so much disorder such that it will take some time before they are resolved. They shall get busy throughout the country and God willing, they shall reform. May God protect all of you and may you all succeed.