In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Verily, we are from God and to Him we shall return «1»
While the Holy Qur'an rests upon the logic that we are from Allah and to Him we shall return, and while Islam has selected martyrdom to achieve its objectives, and despite the fact that God's men, may peace be upon them, have inherited martyrdom from their predecessors, and while our youth ask God for their martyrdom, our adversaries, who have failed in all aspects of this revolution, are trying frantically to assassinate our dignitaries. What are they trying to frighten us of? The United States erroneously assumes that by intimidating our nation, who are the soldiers for the Holy Qur'an, she may hinder the advance of our movement or obstruct us from waging our holy way for God. However, the United States government is ignorant of the fact that fear of death is for those who look at this world as their permanent residence and are ignorant of their eternal resting place with God's blessings. Due to their inward blindness, they could not see the passionate scenes of the martyrdom of our brave and beloved nation: The parable of those who disbelieve is as the parable of one who calls out to that which hears no more than a call and a cry; deaf, dumb and blind, so they do not understand. «2» These people can vividly see that more than thirteen hundred years after the Karbala's epic (in which Imam Husayn (`a) got martyred), the blood in the veins of our martyrs is still fermenting and our nation is still creating fervent epics each day. His Eminence, Hujjat al-Islam Mufattih, the respectable scholar, together with his two guards were martyred and ascended to the divine throne. They kindled the light of the Islamic movement in the hearts of our nation and our youth and gave more impetus to our nation's uprising. May God accept these three souls and be showered with His encompassing Blessings and let them enjoy His light of Magnanimity. It was our greatest desire to make use of his knowledge for the enhancement of Islam and of our Islamic movement. We hope, as well, to benefit from the martyrdom of others. I congratulate these brave men for their martyrdom and send my condolences to those who survive them and their relatives and the Muslim nations of the world. My greetings to the martyrs of the cause of the truth.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini
Muharram 28,1400 AH