Speech [The role and plot of colonialism to dispense drugs among our youth to make them addicts]

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

A country cannot restore the prestige it has lost or find the direction it has strayed from unless everyone take measures collectively, the government or a single individual cannot do anything alone. That is why everybody should work harmoniously with others. There are numerous problems most of which are basic issues. The culture is one of the significant issues Iran has grappled with. Our culture is oriented towards colonialism and our youth have been brainwashed to think in a Western way an affliction of enormous implication to us. We should correct our culture with the assistance of our university staff members who have inclinations towards staff members who have inclinations towards the Iranian culture, and not towards the Western one, and with the help of the Iranian writers who have national interest in the Iranian culture. Through these means we shall succeed in correcting our youth over an extended period of time. Our instructions to the youth should be free from the colonial indoctrinations.

Another point at issue is our economy. If the economy is not in good shape, we shall be dependent, once more, on the foreign powers. We should work so hard that we could have surplus in our produce. We should be able to export. However, the Shah's Land Reform made us backward. Regarding the economy, everybody should be active. With the report that you have offered, I hope you not only will achieve self-sufficient in Qum but also will be able to export some. But we should be thinking of all parts of our country, not merely of Qum, Tehran or another province alone. All Iranian cities and provinces should benefit from your hard work and correct and sound planning without infringing any Islamic law. God willing, God will grant you more than you have planned to obtain.

There is one thing that our nation should take into consideration: if we are dependent economically over the foreign powers, we might someday be facing their economic sanctions. Then, we have to obey them and this is not becoming of an Islamic state. Now, the government should help the farmers to cultivate the lands. Everybody should feel responsible and devoted. Now your country is in such a state that it needs your sincere cooperation. You should work hard so that you would not be dependent. Now we are being threatened with economic sanctions. Most foreign states, despite their nations, agree with these sanctions against us. We should keep being alert even though their threats might be verbal. Now you are engaged in an economic warfare. There is a struggle going on between Islam and infidelity; the economic battle is just one.

It is an obligation of our farmers and anyone who can help them to do their best in order to reach the level of self-sufficiency and even have the capacity to export in the years to come. I am not admonishing you to do so or saying it is advisable for people to o so; rather, it is our obligation. This act of yours is save an Islamic country the claws of oppression and colonialism, which human beings are duty bound to perform. If, God forbid, the Islamic country comes under attack, all the people both men and women, every body should be ready to defend the country. The country's defense is not incumbent only upon one group but rather on everyone.

If we are confronted with a beleaguered economy which will entail an economy dependent on a foreign country, it is our religious duty to save ourselves. Anyone who can do anything for the economy must get involved. We should not wait for others to do our jobs for us. The farmers should not stay idle or lethargic; neither should the industry workers. You should not get working for your own interest. Now the whole nation is engaged in an economic warfare. You should not think that because the condition is peaceful and so you can say that you do not want to reap a lot of benefits. The time things are not at the people's discretion. God has ordered you to work hard for your community. We cannot go under the supervision of a country which does not believe in religion and be under the banner of unbelief. This is of a great importance. We should manage our economy ourselves. We are now faced with such a great Satanic power which is threatening to mobilize all the world's countries to close their doors to us. Such threats, we presume, may not materialize but if there is one percent possibility they apply these sanctions on us, we must rise up and be ready. We should not let ourselves be caught off-guard the enemy's devastating plans. Everyone should produce something for that day. For instance, the cattle raisers, farmers and gardeners should raise their produce, and the regarding factories should step up production, especially the private ones, which bound in Iran, albeit some have been and are becoming dilapidated and anybody who can help. Everybody has to rise and save the economy.

If your country is not emancipated economically and has a dependable economy, you will meet with all sorts of dependencies. We will be dependent militarily and politically. We would have, then, to extend our hands towards the United States for assistance. Then she would impose all sorts of demands on us. Only if we were strong, could we offset her tyrannies. When she used force we would say no to her since we did not need her. Since God has given us ample lands and sufficient water, we have to engage in farming. We should employ the water capacity of the Karoun River and make the barren lands surrounding it into fertile lands. Working is an act of worship; it is considered Godly. Our work is considered as prayers to God if we improve the agriculture today. Everybody should contribute in whatever capacity he or she can so that we can come out of this quagmire forth his or her energy. We want, God willing, to get rid of dependency on other countries. We hope to solve our cultural and political problems. Now, I should thank you for telling me that you have got yourselves involved in farming.

Another issue is the case of the addicts. Do not take it as an accident that suddenly we had a bunch of addicts and heroin dealers. It is the plot of the superpowers. They know that the youth can be abused in every way possible.

But the young generation is the one who can manage our economy quite well. Our youth can equip themselves from the cultural, political and military aspects. It is up to the youth to carry out such plans. We elderly people can step aside. It is the youth who can accomplish a lot. However, the youth are not thinking deeply to comprehend the plots easily. They desire sometimes to smoke opium or heroin. But they are unable to realize that this is a plot, not only against Qum, but against the whole country. They deliberately do this to paralyze our youth to incapacitate them so they cannot rise up. A heroin addict cannot think about politics; neither can he be active in the economic circles; nor can he take part in wars. Such an addict is inutile. He will doze off while sitting and thinks he is enjoying his life. However, this addiction was more common at the time of that man. «2»

There are all sorts of schemes against our youth. One plot is narcotics, such as opium, heroin, and the like. What you are doing now is Godly task. The issue is not the salvation of one man; rather, it is the salvation of Islam. The issue is even subtler than this. The distribution of heroin across the country, either done by persons knowingly or unknowingly, is part of a bigger plot to make our youth inutile and, in the meantime, plunder their oil. They are taking away the dignity of the youth. Now it is up to our physicians to cure these addicted youth, and to give them constructive advice. These youth should be rehabilitated. These addicted youth should return to the nation and Islam. Our youth have carried out this revolution with a lot of efforts. If they had been addicts, they could never have been successful. Could an addict have taken to the streets to protest against the tyrant regime of the past?

The addicts are religiously obliged to put aside their addiction, because they should return to their Islamic prestige and dignity. The addicts should stop smoking narcotic or alcoholic substances. All these drugs deprive the youth of their life. A capable man who could have done a lot of useful things, now has become an addict, who should sit next to a brazier, taking opium and dozing off.

The issue of addiction did not occur in Iran haphazardly. Neither did the centers for prostitution and debauchery happen accidentally. The superpowers used their pornographic magazines for this purpose. They had decided to absorb our youth out of their workshops towards the places where they could indulge in sensuality. They had planned to transform a university oriented man into a corrupt individual. They had in mind to convert an official into a debauchee. If an individual went to this place of merry making, he would soon get used to it. When a young man got involved in corruption, it would be hard for him to stop. Our youth were supposed to manage the battlefields; instead, they were taken to the corruption centers. The plan was to make our youth waste their precious time and kill their motivation. The satanic powers wanted our youth to engage in absurdities so as not to be trouble makers for the plunderers of our oil. They had planned to take away from us our oil reserves. And oil is not the whole thing; we have all sorts of other precious minerals and reserves. Our adversaries know well that our youth could stop their vicious acts. Therefore, they have decided to spoil our youth by making them addicts. In this way, they could make our youth absurd. Under these conditions our youth would become insensitive to what is going on around them. They could not care less if the country is being plundered and would say," The hell with it!"

A youth who is supposed to defend the dignity of his country, his nation and his religion is confined to the brazier to smoke opium and to the tavern to drink alcohol. These are just plans. These acts are not taking place by accident; rather, they are pre-meditated. You are aware that during our revolution most of our youth dragged themselves out of the corruption resorts and joined others in the stages of our revolution. Now, our youth should think that we are still at war with superpowers. We are now in the middle of a political war, an economic war and, probably, in a military conflict. Our youth should avoid going to such corruption centers. They should do so for the sake of Islam, for the nation, for their country, and for their human dignity. They should be exposed to right education, instead. The pictures you showed me today of the addicts frightened me. Are they all from Qum or other places, as well? May God help you.

I hope the entire nation would consider this problem carefully. Our nation should be aware of the fact that there is a plot going on to absorb our youth towards the centers of corruption so that they could easily rob them of their wealth. Our nation should set Qum as an example for their efforts towards enhancing agriculture and becoming self sufficient. I hope every section of this country use the models that the people of Qum have adopted in rescuing their youth and in enhancing their farming. Our youth, as well, should know that the hands of colonialism are at work behind the curtain. Let them not fall in these nasty hands. Our enemies are alert; you too, be alert. May God grant all of you strength. I hope everybody would succeed.