Speech [Mental transformation in the nation - honesty in information, technology]

The verse you just recited," God will never change the mood for a people unless they do themselves" «1» is a reality and an order at the same time. It is a reality in the sense that if some change takes place within a nation, it will stimulate evolutionary, global, and periodic changes, too. And it is an order, since the change you make must be followed by some profitable changes.

You noticed that the progress made by Iranian nation owes much to their self-development. We were a nation so shaped by negative propaganda and the stranger's dominion that we accepted the former regime as it was. That means a change in the mood has been made by the propaganda and deviant trainings in the nation whereby they were ready to undergo any oppression and oppressors. The change had turned people having a healthy nature into ill, unhealthy beings. The pens were running contrary to national interests but parallel to imperial interests. Everything speeches, writings, actions and deeds- had been distracted from the divine nature, wherein an evolutionary change was also brought about, i. e. the control of strangers.

Thank God, a reverse change happened in this revolution wherein a nation that had got accustomed to oppression and pressure turned into a nation that no longer wanted to accept any form of oppression in a short period of time. Then, they rebelled against tyranny by chanting" God's great" and" we do not want the regime." It was a change that brought about another change, which was mental; a real change, which involved toppling the former regime and establishing a new regime, which will hopefully be Islamic. Therefore, God will not effect a change unless we change ourselves. Naturally, if we change in terms of accepting oppression, a tyrant will dominate us. And if we changed in terms of defending our country against plundering and tyranny, God will provide the means- as we observed. We have seen both sides of the coin. One side was that the nation was under strain and stress of oppression for a long period of time because of their departure from the basic divine nature. They had become indifferent to tyranny. Such a mood was partly due to being under strain for a long time and in part, to the propaganda that you should throw away your own values and give way to American ones. So, God fostered a change that you had made it on your own. When the nation woke up and changed in the wake of Islam, nobody was afraid of the system. Those who were once afraid of a policeman faced America. Those who were unquestioningly obedient to the police, rushed out into the streets chanting" down with the Shah". It was a change in spirits, which provided proof for the verse," Truly, Bad never changes people unless they change themselves". You changed yourselves with your own hands. That is, the state of yielding to oppression turned into resisting it. Then, God, Almighty helped you to oust the tyrant.

You should try to maintain the development you have undergone with the assistance of God with your souls transforming into ones that views martyrdom as salvation and subservience as shame. Beware lest you should get back to the former state. It is a divinely tradition that affairs are accomplished in chain of cause and effect. If you prepare to yield to oppression, this causes the oppressor to emerge. The more we yield to the tyrant, the more he puts strain. If we prepare to block him, he will retreat. The more you put pressure on him, the more he pulls back. If you pull back, he will come forth and if you step forward he will step backward. This is a divinely tradition that you put a stamp of proof on it. When you took a step forward to remove taghout, the dictator left forever. Now, you need to protect this revolution and not worry about the remnants of the former regime. They are nothing to be afraid of.

What I want to say about Pars New Agency is that, sometimes it airs biased news. They magnify a trivial matter and talk about something that does not probably exist. This must be rectified. A news agency should broadcast everything as it is that is, it should not either understate or overstate a matter. New agencies must be trustworthy in transmitting information. If there is a conspirator in your news agency, he must be purged so that everything might become all right.

I wish you all a great success. I hope the same for your Sunni brothers. We have to unite and keep the mood that has drawn everyone's attention to God and to the Islamic nature of the country and the republic, so that God can sever the strangers' hands.