Speech [Comparing Iranian revolution with other revolutions - respite and peace for reforming national affairs - Significance of agriculture and Islamic Civilization]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

I first thank all sisters and brothers who have come here from far away areas to meet them in this small room express their point, also have a number of topics to highlight.

I am aware that there exist a lot of confusions everywhere. Of course, these confusions follow a great revolution; they are inevitable. All revolutions in the world experience disorder, but post-revolution Iran is not suffering from considerable and horrendous complication. If you notice, many revolutions are still suffering from lack of peace despite the lapse of many years. All parties have been banned, all papers appropriated and all gatherings forbidden in the name of revolution. In this sense, revolution means that nobody is authorized to breathe.

You well observed that Iran's revolution in its early victory permitted activity of all parties, newspapers and gatherings. They acted several months up to the time that the nation came to realize that some wings were active against the nation and were conspirators. Some of them were stopped and are being investigated.

Iran's revolution has been the best revolution in the world so far. The point is that Muslim people launched the revolution. It was not a revolution organized by army men in the form of a coup; rather it belonged to people, who rose up, moved forward and defeated the other side. The people were Muslims, too. They never wanted to murder persons, to jail them or to stop individuals acting, not at all. It was a peaceful revolution, though mischief-makers are now stonewalling. Well, they are anti-revolutionaries with no roots; they are engaged in superficial activities that will be corrected, God willing.

You know how long it takes for a ruined country with confusion and backwardness everywhere to recover. They destroyed everything; above all, universities. Fearing that well-educated people might come out of universities and stand against them, they let not universities operate well. They led the universities to control education to meet their desire. Therefore, our manpower was withheld from growth. If we find a chance now, we have to start from the scratch.

Planning for reforming culture and purging the people in such centers must be done gradually. Following the revolution, these things cannot be immediately hammered out. I hope they will be fixed gradually, God willing.

When a parliament is formed based on public votes, God willing; an enduring government established by parliament, many things would be improved. Of course, this needs time to be organized. A person might get cold in a few minutes, but it takes him one or two months to get over such a- few-minute chill. Now, a country under a 2500- year yoke of imperial regime as we have experienced, a 50- or- 50- year cruelty with great powers been involved in its plans thus implicating everything it calls for a long time to better off. Yet, hope is that betterment looms ahead for, thank God, when you go everywhere in our country, behold public attention to Islam and release from them from tyranny and foreigners. This has become publicized including children; aged men and youths also talk about it. The awakening, thank God, gained by the nation is well promising. You, the people overcame the great power supported by all foreign powers, not only superpowers but other forces and Islamic governments, yet the nation wanted it to collapse and this power, was broken apart like a big dam, by power of nation who favored Islam and God Almighty.

I hope the nation understands gradual reform of things through the same enlightenment and ignoring problems a bit. Things must be done with a little patience and considering the many problems. Everybody should not ever think why our problems are not removed overnight. This mentality causes those intending to eliminate the problems to lag behind. Nevertheless, I kindly ask all people, particularly young students to be heedful of not befalling a cat's paw in a way that you do not know what it is when they instill into people to go on a strike and spilling over the streets! If we do not spill over the streets, what will happen? Know that the more the country gains repose, the better it is reformed.

Economy and university cannot be improved in an environment in which people clash with each other in the streets. When repose rules an environment, the members including the students, teachers, professors, farmers and workers work efficiently. Otherwise, you can assume Kurdistan where corrupt people popped up and spurred confusion. Well, Kurdistan cannot be asphalted if it is turbulent. Asphalting and hospital construction is insensible where war is not waged. Reforms require calm for people to make, for example the gentlemen who joined reconstruction Jihad- May God protect them- made such a feat and sacrifice. The youth join it for invaluable activity. But given disorder is raised within the task; nothing can be done.

We must declare that the nation has to know the country is of its own now. In this case, the nation is responsible for keeping peace so that the working members would find the chance to work things out. Tranquility paves the way for performance. Disturbance in universities and refusal to attend the class would lead to no success. Things are efficiently done in peaceful dialogue, in which case their demand would be taken care of, God willing. Do not ever imagine that the state itself wants to stonewall or commit treason. That is not the case. Well, these people are obviously those who wish to work, but the task is of course big enough and takes time to be done. Failure in performance is the case, not intention of performance. The task is not exclusive to one person. All people are required to join hands to help and work things out.

Farmers should help raise agriculture level. If we do not develop our agriculture to provide our own means of livelihood then this brings about a link to them and we have to beg the US for bread. If we continue to depend on them, we inevitably have to suffer whatever they impose upon us, they treason against us. We must do something to cut our dependency on others. This depends on the power of farmers. It is time now to sow autumn seeds on the farms. Fall season agriculture is on the way and farmers should be active with the help of the state, removing problems. Well, as you noticed they developed agriculture a bit last year and it changed for better compared to previous years. I hope the farmers will progress increasingly. Our country can become on exporter. Lands, water and all resources can make it possible. We should not beg for our wheat and oath! Everybody must join hands to help. The very Reconstruction Jihad is a big help along with you, to save our country. The country is yours when your needs for food are satisfied by you not by others that might find a chance to intervene our internal affairs. After all, it is faulty for us to get our bread from others, a give and no-give policy. We must provide ours and this finds expression by agricultural development. In case, you had a low output in the past, you can surge it up now. All contribute to this with the state's great assistance leading to growth of agriculture. When agriculture begins thriving, our need to others is diminished and we can resist them. Now, thank God this is possible for us. Anyway, all people have the duty to try to preserve a peace and be active to save their country.

Our universities must be such that we do not need of foreigners whom we implore for medical treatment in their country. They must do something to rid us of at least others. Be it not that if one becomes ill, he has to go abroad for treatment. It may not be such that you say no when a trouble comes up. Let us stand on our feet, i.e. the easterners must stand on their feet. The east wants to continue with its mental dependency on them and think that every thing must come from there; they have to remain dependent on the end.

The East has an Islamic culture that is the loftiest and most progressive. This Islamic culture must meet its requirements by itself without asking the West. Formerly, medical books of the east found their way in Europe producing great physicians. Avicenna's book and «1» Razi's book «2» were two of these eastern books, rendering yeoman service to medicine in the west.

What has happened? We have to extend our hand to the west while eastern civilization has been exported to the West that we should become underdeveloped by doing undesirable things.

The East must stand on its place and find itself out. There has been a massive propaganda, giving rise to the fact that it has lost itself. Common names here, like drugstores and streets must bear the names of Europeans and Americans. Goods produced in Iran had to be tagged with English make to look like coming from England! We have lost ourselves. Foreign names must be wiped off these drugstores, institutes and others. Everything related to Taghout must be cleansed of foreign names so that we gradually might come to our sense, noticing that the East has its reach culture. Why one having a rich culture shall go to others asking for a culture? Others give us no culture but abusive culture! They never give us something good for them. There is a lot of evidence showing that they sent to us whatever of no use to them probably leading us to a decadent country.

If we want to gain independence and liberty, we must run our own country. We have to come to ourselves. We have lost ourselves and must find ourselves. We must be relieved of such Westernization. Do not imagine everything is there and we have nothing. No, we have all things and our culture is rich but it must be discovered well. After all, primary steps have to be taken as everything begins with primaries.

May God assist you all! May God grant you success and His power to remove the problems!