In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Condition of the disciplinary forces in the taghouti regime
The difference between the disciplinary forces in the taghouti regime and the disciplinary forces in the Islamic government is that since the taghouti regime was based on personal gains and allocating profits to those foreign connections who want to sustain them, inevitably that regime betrays the nation. It wants to take by force from the grip of the nation and fill its own pockets and the pockets of its masters in the manner that you and we witnessed.
For this reason, that regime wanted to train the disciplinary forces in such a way that those interests would be safeguarded. And because it is a traitor, it is afraid of the nation; and because it is afraid, it wants to establish a force that would frighten the people. The fact that the disciplinary forces in the inhuman and non-monotheistic regimes attempt to suppress the people and scare them shows that they themselves are afraid of the people, and since they are traitors, they are afraid. For this reason, they build and train the armed forces in such a way that they stand opposite the nation. They segregate the nation from the armed forces. The gendarmerie, the city police are trained in such a way that they would be alienated from the people and would be opposed to the nation. This is because the administration is afraid of the nation and wants that they should have no relations with the people and be opposed to the nation; the nation too would be opposed to them. Therefore, the disciplinary forces in places such as Iran and not only in Iran but in countries such as these, they are placed in two opposite directions with the people. The people are fed up of the disciplinary forces while the disciplinary forces also want to suppress the people. And the basis of all of this is because they want to protect themselves; they train a force that protects them and also be alienated from the people. You know that when Muhammad Rida wanted to pass through a street in the next few days; those places that were located on the route would be put under surveillance; the houses located in the vicinity of the street would be emptied or the policeman would be posted there on duty because he was afraid of this passing; he was afraid of the people; they would even frighten the people because they feared the people. They were afraid because they were traitors. Treason resulted in that a traitor would let the entire disciplinary forces that should have been in the service of the people to be forced to go against the people. People were alienated from you; they also despised you; you too were alienated from the people and were under the impression that you had to suppress the people.
Condition of the disciplinary forces in the Islamic government
But the Islamic government is not so because the one who heads the affairs is not a traitor. When he is not a traitor, he does not afraid of the nation. The people are faithful to him. The disciplinary forces in this government are for the protection of the people and it is established in order to serve the people. When the disciplinary forces are trained in this manner, they become the servants of the nation and the nation also supports those that are its servants. The reason that in the former regime when people would hear the name of the city police or the name of the Security Organization, it would cause a shiver to run down their spine and would be afraid of you and were wary of you, it was because they had created such a situation. In a country where they all wanted to plunder the people, loot the treasury of the people and serve their masters, they inevitably had to build a force for this purpose and to train them in this manner. Definitely the one who would enter the city police or enter the gendarmerie or enter the armed forces would enter in this fashion. On one hand," love of the Shah" must have to be infused; everyday they had to inject it into the ears of the young soldiers. And on the other hand, alienate the people from them. Basically, the people had a separate account from that of the city police and the city police had no relations whatsoever with the people- except the relation in which they would take a person there, beat him up and imprison him.
Modus operandi of the disciplinary forces with the people in the Islamic government
Today, you are living under an Islamic government; that is, a government whose basis is that the people should not regard the strata of the military, gendarmerie and disciplinary forces to be distinct from them. You should regard yourselves to be a part of them; they too should regard themselves as being part of you and embrace you with open arms. You must make the effort with your actions to ingrain this fact in the minds of the people. You who are fifty years old, you who are young, know that the people saw iniquity for fifty plus years from this uniform. From the time they saw the city police, they have seen that it implies beating the people, arresting them, imprisoning them, torturing them, and taking bribes from them! It was the same with the armed forces; the same with the gendarmerie, too. This is what our nation has witnessed for fifty years, before that also it had witnessed the same. But now that we have arrived, it will take some time to erase this from the minds of the people; but you can do it. This thing has been inculcated into the minds of the people for fifty years. From the time they opened their eyes they were made to fear the Security Organization and to fear the disciplinary forces and to fear the military and the gendarmerie forces; through your actions you can and you must remove it from their hearts and to make them understand that today is unlike yesterday. Today is the day when the nation is on friendly terms with the strata of disciplinary forces and they are friends and brothers. They want to keep this security for the nation. When the nation sees that these strata want to serve them, they will certainly be affectionate toward them. A human being certainly gets attached to a person that is of service to him; who maintains the order of the country. You make the effort to realize this definition that is now present which is that Islamic republican government is a popular one where all are united together. The disciplinary forces and the people are like at the advent of Islam; they are rooted in the people. It was not such that one who would become the governor of some province would want to go and pillage the people! In these eras it was so. I remember this- I do not recall the exact time- that if, for instance, someone would be appointed governor of Azerbaijan province, and he would pay a rent to them! This meant that this person must pay fifty thousand or ten thousand tumans of that time to this person who would give the job to that person- make him the prime minister or the chancellor- pay him that amount to give him the post of governor of Azerbaijan! Because this person was hired and he had paid so much, when he would go there he had to make twice the amount that they had paid in order to recover his sum and also make a profit. This was the situation then; it was leasing! Because Azerbaijan province was bigger, the rent was higher; because Hamedan province was smaller, the rent was lower- but all were on the basis of a system of leasehold and according to this the provincial governor would be determined or for example the district governor would be appointed. These conditions are not present in Islam; nothing like these matters is there in Islam. That person who is the first person and is of higher ranking in the hierarchy sit on the same level with the rest; they are friendly with each other; they are companions; they talk and are compatible with each other. Thus, a division or an army at a time when you could hardly call them an army- a group of Arabs who shared one sword for every few of them and one horse for every few of them- triumphed over two of the greatest empires that in those days was the Byzantium and the Persian. This bunch of Arabs who were strong; they had the power of faith and were from the nation and it was not that they wanted to do something for personal gains; they wanted to serve; they were the ones who confronted those people. On the other hand, although their numbers were large and they were well-equipped; their horses were such and their saddles were of gold and so on, they lacked morale such that in one of the battles they would tie them together with ropes! In the Dhou's-Salasil Battle, they tied them up so that they would not run away from the battlefield! They would tie them with chains so that they would be forced to fight. The Arabs had drawn out their swords and attacked them and killed all of them. They were a small number with poor equipment which one could not call" equipment" at all- a few swords, a few horses and a few camels. Those people were defeated because their spirit was a materialistic spirit and was weak; whereas these had a spiritual outlook and were powerful.
The necessity of Islamic approach of the disciplinary forces with the people
Today, you are the city police of the Islamic Republic; each of your personnel must take note of the fact that he is serving in the" Islamic" city police. The head of the city police must also keep this in mind and all your employees must also keep this attitude in mind that they are wanting to serve in a country that belongs to the Imam of the Time (`a); to Hadrat `Amir (`a); it belongs to the Prophet. We are serving the Prophet and Islam. We must not show our power to the people; we should not think that we are powerful and the people are nothing. If you bear this in mind, you will become popular with the people. Your hearts should be confident and at peace such that when you go home at night, you sleep with a peaceful heart; there is no anxiety existing. But if it is a regime that wants to oppose, wants to quarrel, even the one who is an oppressor depending on the type of people- except those that have been transformed into animals- they are troubled when they cause discomfort to the people. This is something that is in the nature of man. A man who troubles somebody else is also himself troubled. But in this government everybody has peaceful heart, God willing, and with power; power against those individuals that cause corruption; and with mercy for your own friends-" hard against the disbelievers and merciful among
themselves" «1»- is a command of God. It describes the pious believers that when they confront non-believers they are powerful; but among themselves they are friendly and merciful.
May God protect all of you; may you all be successful in serving this country.
May God's peace, mercy and blessings be with you.