In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
The necessity of establishment of peace
What is essential for all of us today is to try, as far as possible, to bring about peace. If now that the insurgents are engaged in wicked acts in Kurdistan and the minds of people are focused on resolving this matter, and if a trouble is raised again elsewhere, this will cause confusion in the public opinion and thus making it impractical to solve the problem at hand. I believe that there should be some peace everywhere; people should be urged to maintain peace. I thank those of you gentlemen who have come from Karaj and traveled also to Kurdistan. However, now that you are going back home, you should not be in a hurry for all the affairs to be solved right away. Now that there is this revolution and there are these murders and minds are directed to that region, you need to try to keep your own region in peace, so that the government can be able to attend to that problem (in Kurdistan). If it is supposed that wherever there is a protest and there are conflicts everywhere, and different strata of society want to act differently, this will cause, God forbid, the anti-revolutionaries to take the lead, and some time or other there would be a disaster. At any rate, these affairs will be attended to by the will of God. But now there also exist other issues, which are of great importance. Of course, these issues are not resolvable very soon or in a very near future; the importance (of the matter) is the question of confusion among the public. Right now they (some individuals) were here from Qazvin, and had some words (with me). There are also similar issues in other places. I know, too, that there is turmoil in the work and chaos are plenty. But at the moment the issue of Kurdistan has turned into a critical issue for Iran, and they might be helped from the other side of the borders even though they cannot accomplish a thing but there will be massacre of people and we will lose some of our young men.
The crucial role of the Majlis
You gentlemen should be a bit more patient- just as you say: "Up to now, we have been patient in a revolutionary way" - perchance these problems are solved and, of course, all these problems should be resolved in the Majlis. That is to say that people should try to send pious and religious representatives to the Majlis. All the problems and all other things that have been so far done against the (religious) standards will be resolved there. No longer the government will be able to act on anything or plan things on its own lest they turn to be against the law. And if those who go to the Majlis are religious people- I hope, God willing, that is the case, for the majority of the people in our country is religious, and they will decide on religious representatives. When the Majlis representatives were supposed to be religious, and are devoted to the religious decrees- and God willing, that is the case- then all these problems will be resolved.
And as to some of the talks that are said to have caused the gentlemen to be frightened, I do not know what has been said to scare the gentlemen. What fear is there from an Islamic country? How come the gentlemen did not have any fear before? Those who have been frightened- some of them, of course- are those very ones who want to create disturbance when they say that they were frightened. Otherwise, what fear is there? Of course, some of the things that have been said are words that will never be put into action; nothing that is against the holy religion will be put into action. No doubt there now exist some wrongdoings but they exist because we lack a Majlis. At present, anyone does something or presents a plan or sets a program, or, make a cursory law. All these will fall through after a Majlis is in place. And I hope that the Majlis is an Islamic Majlis, and an Islamic Majlis would not allow non-Islamic programs to be put into effect or un-religious acts to be undertaken.
Finding the roots of criticisms
I, too, know that problems exist all over Iran. There are some shortcomings in the committees and it is not known for sure if the courts are operating with precision and some of the government's programs are at times contrary to the norms and are improper. I am aware of these; I know them all. But now it is not the right time for us to disturb everything and change the situation.
Of course, some of the problems to which the gentlemen pointed, will be prevented. However, you have to be wary and, if you hear something in the public, you should find the causes of it. Go after it and follow on it and find its causes, which sometimes does have a root, roots that are not compatible with your taste; neither are they compatible with the Islamic standards. And I hope that these problems are resolved and nothing (malice) is done against Islam, God willing.