Speech [Carter's conspiracies and the nation's readiness to confront them]

I would like to thank the respectable sisters and brothers who have come here from Tehran and Babol, to discuss things with me. I am proud to see that all of you are prepared to serve both Islam and the Islamic republic. It is not for a single individual. Islam belongs to all of us. Islam is for humanity, not just for Muslims. Islam was revealed to lead all citizens of the world towards the right path. Islam, unlike other schools of thought, is unique in that it does not plan for worldly fulfill some tasks government or for material superiority. It is in the agenda of all human governments and non-monotheistic systems, to here in this world, and granted that some of them are good, they still aim to engender merely a worldly system. Furthermore, most of such human governments are corrupt because they have come into being in order to dominate others and exploit them.

You could never find a government in the world today that acts upon the justice it is based on. Very rarely can such just government be found; they are the same worldly system. Claims of a just government are plenty; leaders of countries claim that they want to implement justice. Your and our ears have been defended by Muhammad-Rida's claims to social justice. He bragged of social justice. He insistently boosted of social justice and progress of this county to me and you saying that our country had reached to" the Gate of Great Civilization." and soon we shall reach the great civilization and Iran will be like advanced country and will attain such and such progress. He lased to make so many claims. But in the end, Muhammad-Rida was found to be deceiving people and did not desire the prosperity of our nation; rather, he was determined to push us backward and not allow this country to even take a single step to progress. He was commissioned to carry out this devastating plan against us. He paralyzed any governmental departments and performed his mission quite well.

Observe what sort of commotions they created over the issue of land reform. The land reform was carried out in our country to destroy agriculture altogether, In the name of" land reform" in order to make us dependent on foreign wheat from abroad. See what scandals they created over the issue of" free women" and" free men." See what infamous tasks were performed by the representatives of the monarchial consultative assembly, the senate and by the agents of the Shah and them proclaimed that our country had been" freed"! What" free women" or" free men" had you seen during the regime of this father and son, particularly the latter, who was a posterior memento of the father, and who outsmarted him too. You are well aware of the fact that nobody had any freedom at the time of Rida Khan and his son. Nobody was free to utter one word of truth. Freedom in their conceptualization was setting the youth free to engage in prostitution and retard the forces of youth. The damage they afflicted on the youth was even more serious than the one leveled at our reserves. They paralyzed our youths' ability to grow. They destroyed our youth. They directed our youths toward the paths which destroyed their manpower and dignity. The youth, who had to serve the country, were pushed towards centers of prostitution and paralyzed their thought so that they could not serve this country and they became entirely useless. The regime opened the doors to prostitution centers and promoted it with so much hue and crying and goaded the youth to be buried in centers of corruption and incapacitated their intellect. They have been robbed of their youth. These respectable sisters[ girls ]who were ensnared in the web of the regime's propaganda and promotional trap[ of moral corruption ]were divested of human duty and were transformed into play things at the hands of these criminals; what these corruptors did to this sacred thing in the name of freedom is a constant cause for regret for the honorable individuals who have preserved their human moral.

You have seen how lively our dear nation have become soon after the tables were turned the regime was defeated and flung out through the efforts of all classes of nation; how the people were transformed into a different creation and become preoccupied with offering the services to everyone; all over the country, we witness how busy people are to serve. Nobody forced the crusade for reconstruction; volunteers mobilized themselves from schools and set off to go other places to serve the people. Revolutionary guards are posted everywhere in Iran without anybody compelling them to do so. They themselves formed this corps. In every locality, the local people themselves mobilized themselves (for this purpose). The local clergy, the locally trusted ones, and the local intellectuals formed these hard working revolutionary guards. They have created committees, and the courts of justice. The people themselves cooperated to save their country.

I have already told you and I reiterate now what I have said before: let it be known that the whole revolutionary corps, all the courts, all committees and all other groups are to serve Islam. Now we are Islamic republic. You are the Islamic army. You are serving Islam and the twelfth Imam (`a). Be careful not to get engaged in any act which is in violation of the Islamic principles or the Islamic Republic. This is a profound duty for all, for us and you.

This principle applies to the clergymen as well. Clerics are the representatives of the Prophets (s) and the twelfth Imam (`a) among people. If a cleric, God forbid, commits something un-Islamic, he has wronged not only himself but has also tarnished the reputation of the whole class of clerics. A cleric has a crucial task to perform. When a clergy commits an offense, he cannot be likened to just any ordinary person that so and so has done such and such. A cleric's wrongdoing has far-flung repercussions that affect his whole perimeter of influence. A wrong did a clergy does is so grave that its forgiveness is extremely difficult to obtain from God and because he is representing the twelfth Imam (`a) and Islam. If, God forbid, the envoy of the twelfth Imam (`a) took a wrong turn act, people would become cynical about the clergy. Cynicism against and defeat of the clergy is the defeat of Islam. It is the class of clerics which has continually defended Islam to this day. If, God forbid, anyone of this class acts against the good of Islam, his crime would be worse than murder. His sin will be interpreted more abominable than other sins. This is because a cleric's wrong doing will disgrace the class of the clergy. His wrong action will encourage lukewarm Muslims to turn completely against Islam from Islam. If a religious scholar becomes corrupt, the whole world will be corrupt. Superficially, this religious scholar is the Imam's representative. If, God forbid, he commits a wrong deed, he will spoil the whole nation, sometimes the whole world. On the other hand, if he is righteous, he will make the whole community or, the whole world, pious.

When I was young I made a trip to Mahallat. I found the people there very righteous. They were different from others. They were upright. One would scarcely find a deviated person there. When I looked for the reason behind their righteousness, I found out that the cleric and his `ulama over there were a truly religious man. People in Mahallat had their eyes, ears and mid fixed at their congregational prayer leader. People would see what kind of congregational leader they had and if he was independent, and concerned only with God and not the world, people would then follow him. Thus, the tasks of the clergy are even more sensitive than those of the other people. You, too, should carry out the same tasks that the clergy are, and have been, doing even though they have just recently started (your job). The clergy serve Islam, so do you. You are the Islamic corps, so are they. Both of you are carrying out the same tasks. The nature of your positions differs. Do not think that if anyone of you did anything wrong, your offense will be dismissed lightly as if an ordinary person has committed it. People will bad name the Islamic revolutionary cops. People then would become suspicious of the corps of the Islamic guards. The opponents in the lurk to find weakness in you and start propagandizing that the previous regime has been ousted only to be replaced by another one similar, and even worse. This will introduce our regime in a bad light and (the enemies) will introduce it as a corrupt regime.

May Allah protect you all women and men, particularly those ladies, who strove in the front rank of this movement who stood. You have encouraged so much to make Islam materialize in this country. Every one was thinking of establishing an Islamic Republic, a divine system of justice, now. If, God forbid, any sort of indiscipline is committed or arises from you or us, which contradicts Islamic justice or the norms of Islam, the people who are sitting idly and watching (your every move) are waiting to find a blot (on Islam) and aggrandize it. They will not say that a certain Hasan or Husayn has committed a wrongdoing; they will impugn all revolutionary guards; and even the righteous (innocent) ones among you will be maligned because of one offense committed (by one among you). This will lead them to aggrandize the issue a step further and publicize that the Islamic republic is like this. They will publish abroad that Islam, too, is the same.

Right now these propagandas are being used against us abroad. Those who have lost their interests in Iran will not stay idle. The superpowers and Carter, who have lost their material interest, will not be silent.(Especially) now Carter, who has suffered, and is suffering, a severe political blow, would not be silent. He is appealing to this and that president, or heads of Shah and such parliament to unit with him in this idea of opposing Iran because everyone, not only him, is terrified that Islam will become a reality. They fear lest the cries (of people) in Iran and the movement that rose in Iran, whose perimeter has reached everywhere. They are worried about the Islamic movement in Iran. They fear it might spread. Now the newspapers, radio and television all over the world are discussing the Islamic movement in Iran. They fear the waves of this movement will reach foreign shores overcome other countries one by one and paralyze the powers and make them face defeat in the world. For this reason, they will not sit idle speculating. They confer searching for sympathizers. To see what the world, that is the world's president will do; to what extent will heads of countries show their servitude to Mr. Carter and disgrace their nations and themselves for his sake. Mr. Carter was thinking he would take an unfortunate ailing to protect and cure him to show the American and other nations his loyalty to those traitors who committed treasons for the Shah and hopes to get reelected a second time. But instead, he disgraced himself.

Now Carter is being criticized and denounced by the world's scholars and thoughtful personalities for keeping a man who has committed so much treason against one nation. Now this nation is telling Mr.(Carter) that this criminal who is with him now and has been given asylum to is not a" political refugee." Carter declares him as a political refugee so he can say he cannot be extradited back to us. Based on the law, he is a criminal. Based on the laws of the world, somebody (the Pahlavis) who had suppressed the nation for fifty years, particularly this man (the Shah) who had wronged his nation for thirty-five years, had massacred many of its people, and fried their backs on pans is a criminal. Show (on TV) once what agonizing ordeals had our Islamic and humane people, intellectuals and thinkers had gone through in underground prison dungeons intelligence security agency (the SAVAK).

Was transpired in those dungeons was beyond our imagination. And perhaps those detainees who have come and gone could not tell us all the torture they had undergone. However, we are one nation and we announce to the world the magnitude of the crime committed against us; how profusely the Shah plundered our treasury pouring our wealth straight into the packet of Mr. Cater and likes of him. The enormity of the crimes he committed against this country and the wantonness of the massacre and plundering he had done are all beyond belief. We want him (carter) to send the Shah back to us so he could be tried and find out why he had done all this. The gist of all matter is that lest the Shah comes back to Iran and makes an expose (of U. S. crimes in Iran) if he is tried, had amputated their legs. Some say the Shah is being brainwashed to make him forget so that he will not be able to reveal any secrets. U. S. will do everything it can and busy doing so. We do not get involved in such courses of action, but they do. They can brainwash him as much as they want to and condition him to forget everything but our nation will not forget. The voice of our nation has risen and it is shouting" down with the US," and they mean Carter. The American nation has not done anything wrong to us. The American nation understands the issue they will agree with us ..

Those who oppose us are bereft of any human conscience. The superpowers lack a human mind. There are lunatic thoughts in their minds, which motivated Cater to take this man (the Shah) (and give him asylum) in the name of philanthropy. He is planning to impose economic sanctions against us and even intervene militarily in a country with a population of thirty-five million again for the sake of philanthropy. And what man (has he given asylum to); he is from here[ in Iran ]he has not come from anywhere else; he is from among the citizens here. Mr. Carter wants to impose economic pressure or thirty-five million people and let them perish at the expense of one murderer, who committed crimes thirty-five years in the name of philanthropy! I cannot say what kind of substance is this (the Shah) made of his essence is different from the rest of this thirty-five million populace. His essence is inhuman. If it were within your (U. S.) power, you would, but you are powerless to do so. You, who claim to be philanthropist are willing to let thirty-five million people die for the sake of one man so that your crimes will not be revealed. Mr. Philanthropist there is fifty-thousand of us in America, our beloved Iranian students in the United States. Are you planning to deport them for no reason at all? Are you really philanthropists?

Are you acting in accordance with the international laws? Do you respect human rights? Do these thirty-five million people have no human rights? Only one wretched and murderous man has the right? Most of our thirty-five million nation are pious and educated. Are you saying that they not have any right in the world? Does only Muhammad-Rida have any rights? Does only this criminal have any right? Other than this, we may surmises that, out of his philanthropic sense, Carter has been compelled to instigate him (the Shah) what we witness is against philanthropim. This is not the issue.

Carter has misjudged the issue, and pig-headedly he cannot go against the misjudgments he has made. He has decided to run for president but his approach seems to be erroneous. He was wrong in the first place to give protection to the Shah as a way to win reelection and get embroiled in a conspiracy. Some say the Shah has gone there for treatment. I do not have any information. Others, however, say he had gone there to plot against our nation. Still, others that this wretched man is sick and has cancer. Carter has taken a wrong way, he thought that the situation now is like that in the previous regime when every word he would dictate to Muhammad-Rida, the latter would in turn dictate to the nation, which would obey without a word. The situation was such in the past. The moment the Shah was ordered to carry out an errand and that he was delegated to do a task (for the U. S.), he would immediately abide by it and impose everything on the people, who had acquired a submissive nature.

Carter thought that our nation now is the same nation of the past. He does not realize that our nation has undergone a transformation into a humane entity in every meaning of the word. It is now a creature which will defend itself a creature which will not undergo oppression. Islam orders us not to engage in or succumb to oppression." inzilam", which means undergoing oppression, is not les serious than oppression itself. One who surrenders to tyranny has oppressed himself. Both aspects of oppression are forbidden in Islam. You have neither right to oppress anyone nor the right to yield to oppression. Our nation will undergo no more oppression from you (the Shah). The presidents of the United States have tyrannized us and through their agent destroyed al our resources; worse than this the U. S. pushed our manpower backward. We will yield to no more tyranny. We want back the Shah to try him. We are not concerned with him personally. People are not fond of looking at a wretched man like him. Rather, we need to try him and present the voluminous records of evidence (of his crimes). We want to present to the world the disabled youth whose limbs have been amputated by him. This is our plight at the present time, and what our nation has undergone in this thirty-five years of [the Pahlavi] rule. We will bring forth the elderly ladies whose young sons had lost their lives and show to the world the pictures of their youth who were killed at Rex «1» Cinema for instance.

Today, an old man came saying that four, five or six of his children were there (Rex Cinema). We want to say that this philanthropist is keeping the Shah because he wants to take care of human being, because the Shah is not a human being to be taken care of; or do such out of his humanitarian considerations. He does this out of fear lest the first of the U. S. president be opened and revealed secrets if the Shah is extradited. The Carter will lose the chance of becoming a president in the future.

America will stamp the word" no" on him and declare his ineligibility for the presidency. His nation will understand what the U. S. presidents have done to the people and the world. The American people, unlike their leaders, have no poisoned thoughts. The thought of the nations are protected (from defilement) except those who stick around top officials. This is what their fear al about. If from the beginning, our nation has told the U. S. to keep the Shah and kill him, they would. They (nation), too, have no fear of getting killed.

Do you think the American authorities feel sorry about these fifty hostages here? Or, that their humanitarian sentiments and affection for their countrymen have driven them to save these hostages. I want to assure you that it is not the case. They are in the habit of sending legions of soldiers to serve them and dispatch their troops to battlefronts to kill and to be killed. Thousands of American have been killed so far. For one voice to arise from America itself and declare that its president is such sort of a person. The American morale is like this. Their spiritual state is no longer that same primordial and human nature they had at birth. They had lost it. All human beings come into existence with a truthful (divine) nature. However, they change because of their environment, upbringing and other factors. The Americans have changed and ceased to have to have their primordial nature. They will not bother themselves for the sake of these fifty or so people detained. Here, that is, they are being detained in their own precincts, where they reside and leading their normal lives in comfort as I have been informed. I have always made the recommendation that they should live in absolute comfort. However, Americans made hue and cry that are maltreating the hostages. And some people who went there said it is not the care of the matter. The commotion is not because of these fifty or so people. It is because Mr. Carter is frantically trying to win the next presidential election. All thought are focused on this. I promise him, though, that he will not be, God willing. Becoming a president requires a special way.

Mr. Carter: Let us assume you want to be the president of the United States for other four or five years. Is it worth tarnishing the image of a human being a nation of two hundred and fifty million before the people (of the world)? Is it worth engaging in crimes for four more years? The U. S. presidency means committing crimes. Is it worth being a [U. S.] president, which is equivalent to criminality, for another four years. Is it right to subject the American nation, which cannot be held culpable (for the crimes its president commits) to so much indignity? Why are you turning the world population cynical towards Americans, United States? You are supposed to be a servant to your nation. If you are a genuine servant of your nation, you would declare that the Shah is a criminal and should deliver him back to the people against whom he had committed crimes. This act of yours would then be a service to your nation. Then it would be an honorable act. The Iranian nation, too, would applaud you. But, what has happened? Now the" Iranian nation considers you a criminal worse than the Shah. Now you have betrayed yourself. The American nation is convinced that you are destroying your country betrayed them, as well. Is it worth becoming a president once more to commit crimes for another five years? Being a Shah, Muhammad-Rida was in the habit of thinking that he would be a Shah forever. Because of this misconception he engaged in all sorts of crimes. He did not think that God does not want him to. But you are a president and you would hold this position only for five or perhaps six years, which is really nothing. Then you have to go. It cannot be your turn forever. Then your rivals would prevail. It is not clear whether you will reach your illusory dream. Now, it is mere illusion. You are not sure to win the reelection since your rivals are getting ready to campaign for this position. You are in frenzy because of the illusion of occupying the presidential seat for another five or six years and be embroiled in it. You are endangering the American reputation in the eyes of the peoples of the East because of your delusion (for power). Is it really worth it to be under such wrong and devastating assumption? It is not rational to get involved in so many cases of crimes for such a delusion? The U. S. situation is in a such mess.

We are being afflicted by such human beings, or people, or creatures against whom all nations should struggle. We are not afraid that we become isolated economically, nor are we afraid of perhaps a military intervention. We are not sacred of such things. Before al these upheavals (took place now in Iran) I have seen several occasions like this. You may not have a recollection of all this, but in the locality, where we hue that is Khomeini, we used to build military fortifications. I had a gun, but I was quite a young lad, around 16 or 17 years of age, at the time. I used to teach others how to use guns. Even now I know this craft. My elder brother, too, was a good gun-man. Of course, now he is old. My brother and I used to fight with the rebels. They used to plunder and start turmoils. The central governmental lacked the necessary power. All this occurred prior to the emergence of Rida Khan. There was disorder, rebellion and turbulence everywhere. Kashan and Qum were dominated by Nayeb Husayn Kashi, Nayeb Husayn, «2» and his son. They used to assault our neighborhood, too. The Zallaqis, «3» too, made frequent attacks on our region. They once captured one district of Khomein. People took guns to defend themselves. We were among these people. We fought against the rebels to the last bit of our energy.

Now we hope all the nation become gunmen and warriors. We would fight to the last moment. You brought phantom jets and dropped bombs over our heads. Do whatever you wish to do. Do not threaten us with your military. We will bury your military men here. And do not frighten us that you will make us starve until we die. God will provide us with sustenance.

We are capable of gaining our subsistence from God's soil. Our farmers are now alert and will enhance and revive agriculture in Iran once again. Anyway, the issue is that now we are facing such a great power. Regrettably, there are some internal agitators who try to create turmoil in Iran. They are in frenzy to help American region power. How infamous and shameful are those individuals, who were born and who have been educated in this land, to continue their relations with America, after our country and our nation had its power defeated. How could we ever justify such a disgrace? To whom should we complain for the disruption that this group of internal agitators is creating so that the Islamic Republic would not find the chance to get established? This group is alarmed lest this Islamic Republic materializes and the hands of their masters [foreigners] are cut off from our internal affairs.

Since our arrival here and prior to it[ Carter's followers ]they have been busy causing turmoil. They did this step by step. People wanted to vote, but they would not allow them and harassed by a group of agitators. You people advanced and defeated these agitators. Then it was time for them to take the second step, that is, to oppose the Constitution, about which they said a lot inane remarks. These agitators once again were mobilized to disrupt the voting saying that the Constitution could not be ratified. The people cast their votes and this second voting was around 90 percent, which was more than the previous one. Ninety percent of the people voted for the constitution. Now that their masters are being defeated, these agitators once again get engaged in conspiracies and want the votes of a handful to supersede the entire nation's vote and term it national exigency.

This is exactly what Carter's logic delicates; it means that thirty-five million people of Iran should be trampled upon and crushed for the sake of one person. Also, for a limited, few or for their love of America, they want to quell the Islamic movement and Islam knowingly or unknowingly. It is cause of regret. But they will not able to because today our country and our nation have undergone a transformation; they have waken up and their eyes are now vigilant. These conspiracies are one futile, are alert now. Our nation will defend themselves against all these conspiracies.

May God keep you in good health. I pray for you, my sisters and brothers and will serve you until my last breath. May God keep you safe.