Speech [Duties of the nation in present conditions - Consideration to army being Islamic]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

I thank you for coming to meet each other at close range, a brotherly visit for talking about our troubles. Of course, be assured that troubles lack a basic incentive to stop the revolution, a nation's revolution that brought superpowers to their knees and drew them aback. It is not temperate for mass mobs, some remnants of the ex-regime and Zionist-American puppets with their mischief to defeat the revolution. You are winner as you did so with the help of nation and interference with its problems. From now on, God willing you will attain to this aim by preserving your unity and relying on Islam and it rules. I hope we witness Islam wherever in this Islamic country and see the holy Prophet's footsteps wherever you go. All of us observe national welfare wherever in the country, magnificence of the country and that of the Islamic countries. ' I hope this is achieved as God Almighty stays with you.

Of course, you, the whole nation and we are up to obligations now. Presently, we are on the way. We broke the big dam, but there are corruption, troubles, ruins, disorders and backwardness dragged behind. We inherit a country that has been under strains of America, England and other superpowers for fifty years or so; it has been changed into a ruin with all backwardness. Above all, its manpower is backward; they let it not grow. They allowed its Islam not to do whatever it wants to. For this, we have a war-ridden country where there has been a 50- year corruption. It is stricken with corruption and all people must extirpate this corruption. All of us have to be unified to carry the burden and to let the revolution bear fruits. We are obligated politically, socially and personally wherever we live.

You are in the army- I hope you gain strength increasingly- and can be involved in mending the affairs. The army is foundation of a country, protector of a county and must become Islamized. If it gains an Islamic mentality, it can drive the country to absolute perfection. You safeguard boundaries of country. Someone safeguarding the borders of an Islamic country must be Islamic himself. Islam has to govern all your barracks. You must be Islamic; all forces whether military or else must be Islamic. Islamic Republic must have its contents fulfilled. Once its inclusions are fulfilled, all foreigners' hands will be cut off you and cannot be returned.

Note that your power should be kept. Preserve unity of word and be unified. Do not remember post-revolution troubles. There are a lot of problems after every revolution, particularly a revolution inheriting a country in 50- year stifling atmosphere. You have inherited such a country. After every revolution, people suffer diseases and, thank God, our revolution among the revolutions has been purer and cleaner and must be called," White". I hope God Almighty stays with us. God willing, He does, as our revolution has been Islamic. People launched the revolution for the sake of Islam that has come to be victorious through the cries of" God is the Greatest". May God, Almighty, support you, Islamic nations, Iranian nation and us! All move forward to remove the problems, God willing. Stay powerful.

Let not fear overtake you with what is said and written by some papers to the effect that Iran is now in confusion. Do not fear these foreigners who spread rumors that nothing has happened. Power is in your hands and the country is in your hands. These few people who make mischief will be sent to graveyard. You survive, God willing.