Speech [The west and the unwarranted expectations; the need for general participation in the referendum for the Constitution]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

I would like to say a word that is that you, gentlemen, have taken great efforts during this term and have done this service and now as you are heading for your cities and towns, I want to advise you to tell people not to stay idle and indifferent to something that concerns their destiny, that is the constitution. It is the fate of all of us. If people do not show their enthusiasm in casting their votes, it is then implied that they are indifferent towards Islam, their fate and towards their country. This would have a very bad repercussion not only for the whole world in general and but also within Islam and its authorities.

It is a duty for all not to stay indifferent over an issue which is related to the fate of our nation and Islam. Rather, we should expend all our energy to follow so God willing problems came to their end and this law is passed We are not happy with the mere passing of this law. We are after that majority which has showed up in the previous referendums. Or else we will have the majority since people of Iran are Muslims.

There are, of course those who raise hue and cry concerning this issue here and there. These elements are forestalling the movement's fruition by disseminating false propaganda from one place to another. Regretfully, some from among us talking adversely, although inadvertently, about the constitution. Certainly, this is not the right way because these gentlemen have been elected by the nation.

We are not allowed to interfere with what our nation has decided. We depend on our nation. The nation has appointed the gentlemen. And they have drafted the Constitution, and had it ratified. And they are experts. They have completed the task in the way that the nation wanted. So, there should not be any talk that so and so article does not comply with the western rules. We have come up to drive out the mentality of these gentlemen from westernization yet this task may be consummate within our next coming eighth generation. I do not know what these people have seen of the West? The west is the same, as you are examining, is committing crimes in a such manner and the person who is absolute criminal «1»; take him away, look after him and support him. They would take no heed of an oppressed nation. They would not let the security council [of the United Nations] convene a session [to settle this issue]. They have plundered Iranian reserves and possessions like highway robbers. They have unlawfully confiscated our reserves. This is the state and situation of the west. And all the organizations which have been set up are to watch the interests of the west. Not one of these is concerned with the oppressed. During the sessions they have held; you will not find one situate whenever America or others, who have an immense power have cared for weak country which has a clash with them. It is for sometime now that Lebanon is afflicted with this cancerous tumor [Israel]. What have these councils done for this [predicament], what have these councils done during the period we were suffering, during more than fifty years when we underwent all these sufferings. What have done these councils for us; these were meant to convene in the interests of the super powers. They deceive us saying that these assemblies, security councils the United Nations and other organizations have been established for our sake. All of them were meant to make a fun at us and we are also being trapped.

To those gentlemen, who claim that certain articles of the Constitution do not comply with the western laws, want I say that what pleases the West is for us, to surrender everything we have unquestionably. This is what the west is after. If these gentlemen demand this, it is rejected by our nation. And these people should realize that there is nothing in the west except crimes and treacheries. I am not referring to their nations; rather, I mean their governments, their states. Anyway, I ask these intellectuals or pseudo-intellectuals not to play with the fate of this nation. Now, your country is afflicted with all sorts of miseries; you are confronted with a super-power called the United States: It is not time to divide and to utter things against the interests of your nation. Now it is the time for them to think in a concerted way and unite so that our hardships will be eliminated. If they are national, let them work for their country; and if they are Muslims, let them work for their Islam. Of course, there are groups which do not believe in anything. They could be found everywhere.

Any way what is necessary for all of us to do now is to follow up the issue of the referendum and to urge the general all walks of life to participate in the voting. I ask you to inform the preachers and the orators alike in the towns and cities and the elite and the intellectuals, as well, to encourage people not to stay idle or indifferent concerning their participation in the voting in the referendum, so that we are not met with a result which is not what we approve of. But there are some disturbances of which we should not be afraid. We have already been confronted with worse than these predicaments. And our nation has several times been on the verge of collapse, but each time it has come out victorious. Now, our nation is in a position that such problems cannot shake it. Let them utter whatever they want and keep our wealth frozen [in banks]. Let them veto the resolutions presented to the UN. Now the world should realize that those claimers of the human rights have caused the most pernicious sorts of problems for us.

My hope is that we will move ahead to the fulfillment of our goals. Sometimes we get ourselves involved in some activities, the results of which we may not anticipate at present. But at the end, we see that we have been on the right path. We conclude from these affairs that Allah has been with us and He had made the progress of events smoothly. We heavily rely on Allah and we are certain He will not let us down. We are in remembrance of God. We ask God, the Exalted and Blessed, to rescue this country these corrupt

elements. We ask God to entrench this country. We ask Him to entrench this Islamic government. God willing.