Speech [describing the American plots and their agent's conspiracies against the Iranian Revolution]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

I would like to express my thanks to both the president and the people of the North Korea for their support at this critical juncture of our history. You are defending us out of your humanistic sentiments.

For the last fifty years we have been dominated by the United States and other super powers. The agents of these foreign powers were both Rida Khan and Muhammad-Rida Phalavi who engaged in so many cases of injustice and cruelties against the Iranian nation that their tolerance came to an end and they revolted against the aggressors empty handed. People stood in front of modern weaponry just with their faith. From the very first step of the conception of the Islamic republic the United States showed enmity. Americans did their best to support the Shah. Carter sent me some envoys. When the Shah left Iran, Bakhtiyar came to Iran and was protected by the United State. He worked for the Americans. When Bakhtiyar left Iran, Americans put out lots of energy not to let our revolution succeed. Their agents who were the remnants of the old regime engaged in a lot of conspiracies, with no results, however.

These agents tried their best to stop the carrying out of the referendum for the Islamic Republic. Having suffered failure in this regard they mobilized themselves to sabotage the elections for the Council of Experts. When the nasty agents of the United States met with failure, they started to conspire against the referendum for the Constitution. They even broke the boxes of the votes and prohibited people from casting their votes. However, thanks God, people came out victorious. They almost unanimously voted for it. Then the representatives of the Consultative Assembly worked on the Constitution. However, the United States still provokes some conspiracies against us.

It is strange that those who claim that their actions are based on the principles of freedom and democracy now are resorting to the clubs to stop the process of the enactment of the Constitution. They desire to change the articles of the Constitution. They have, however, forgotten that Iranian people are still the same people who voted for the Constitution. They should know that the same representatives who are fond of Islam will once again approve of the Constitution. These representatives love their country. Suppose they put the Constitution to people's voting. They once again will vote positively for it. These people love their Islam and their country. They will vote the same. They are using too much ado for nothing. The revolt that now is found in Azarbayjan is carried out by the American agents. The honorable Azarbayjanis should know that the American agents are behind these actions. The revolt in Qum, too, was done by the same agents. They want to stop the passage of this law. The disagreement with the Constitution is the enemy of Islam.

Let our Azarbayjani brothers realize that today we confronting with blasphemy and Islam is in danger. Anybody who revolts against this republic at any place and location in Iran is considered an enemy of Islam because such people would not like Islam to materialize in this country. If you thin the Constitution has got some short comings, you should let the Islamic government get established and its president get elected and the Consultative Assembly get in operation, then these short comings will be taken care of. This will be done by your representatives. Using clubs and intimidation and harassment will be of no effect. Some of these club bearers have got records among the records and documents obtained from the den of espionage. Let people not get deceived and manipulated by these aggressors.

May God save our nation from the evils of the United States. I hope the people of the world will sympathize with us. And if the American nation realized what their presidents have done to us in the last fifty years, they would agree with us. I hope we could finish the trial of these American spies here, and then we will invite some envoys of the United States to take part in a session held here in Iran by the lawyers from all interested countries. Then they could research the cases of the cruelties that the presidents of the United States have imposed on the Iranian nation. Then the people of the world will realize what crimes the United States commit in the poor countries. They have recently condemned us in some pre-determined sessions. «1» This session (of the American senate) was convened by the command of Carter. Such sessions, however, are of no value whosoever.

We will not consider these detainees as the real personnel of an embassy. Neither do we consider that place as an embassy. If that place were an embassy and if these people were the personnel of an embassy, they would be right to protest. We will consider the place where they worked as a center for espionage. These are not diplomats. Instead, they are spies. Therefore, they are criminals. And the criminals should be tried in the places where they have committed crimes. We will convene such a court in the future. We will invite the envoys of all nations to take part. Then we will try the United States in such a court.

Once again I express my gratitude towards all those nations who supported us. I ask God to make all oppressed nations succeed.