Speech [The Long way to final victory; miscellaneous tricks and conspiracies]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Every day we face mothers have lost their sons father who have lost their ones the disabled and wounded and all sorts of hardships which the previous regime has created for us. Every day we feel terribly sorry concerning these incidents, but condole ourselves thinking that the nation resembles the crusaders at the outset of Islam. Next to the Great Prophet (s) and Imam `Ali (`a) a lot of young men were martyred but they saved Islam. Today, too, when Islam is facing infidelity, our great men are defending Islam bravely. Not only men, but women and children are sacrificing their lives for Islam. Today we are threatened by the great satans who have not stopped conspiring against us. They are planning to sow internal turmoils. Those external threats such as military intervention or economic sanctions are not worth paying attention to. However, the internal conspiracies which are created by the agents of superpowers, especially of the United States, are still fresh and have not been defeated yet. Our nation defeated one of the internal agents, headed by Muhammad-Rida. He and his colleagues were expelled from Iran, their hands curtailed were driven out of Iran. The hands of foreign criminals who were apparent were served. But there are still extensive conspiracies being hatched against us by the underground agents of those powers. Therefore, our nation should not think yet that they have got the final victory. Now, we still have a long way to go. We should not rest till all these conspiracies are rooted out. You have to continue with this movement which you have bravely started. And I hope that we the radiance and light shining in the hearts of the children of Islam and the right way they have found, and now that they have understood who their enemies and friends are and who the conspirators are. You will embrace victory.

The important issue here is for our young men, who are working in different places of this country, either at the committees or at the police departments, to realize the fact that we owe our victory to Islam. Your chanting of" God is Great" and people's asking for martyrdom have brought about this victory. Those fathers who have lost their sons are proud of their sons' being martyred. Some mothers have lost their sons, but are willing for their other sons to get martyred. This is because your movement has been of Islamic nature. If it were a non-Islamic movement, nobody would volunteer to sacrifice his life. Our men and women are ready to sacrifice their children because the movement has been Islamic. And when you were trying to advance the movement, nobody cared for his or her own safety. You were victorious because you worked for Allah. You gained a victory which has been unique in the history of mankind.

Nearly all revolutions in the world have been initiated by either a military group, or by a political party affiliated with the military or by a person assisted by foreign countries. A good example is the coup d' etat recently carried out in Afghanistan by a man who calls himself a communist and who has been one of the communist leaders. This military coup took place with the aid of Russian troops. However, it is not yet certain if they could succeed. The Afghan nation has risen up but all the coups which have occurred there have been military and have been staged by the foreigners. The same generalizations apply to other coups. In other revolutions, too, the impetus came from the military and not from people. You will never find a revolution in the world which has been brought about through the people themselves and with no reliance on military forces or a foreign power, and which had had no military equipment or training. In our revolution, these common people, and the university and seminary students, the businessmen, the farmers and the factory workers, all of whom lacked both military training and equipment all cooperated with one another and metamorphosed a materialistic, worldly man into a spiritual, divine one. Those revolutions were equipped with all sorts of military equipment and were assisted by the superpowers of the day; however, you brought about your revolution through your reliance on God. You should, therefore, keep the secret of your progress alive.

You should keep the secret behind your victory if you desire that this victory could continue, and that an Islamic country could be established.

Your faith and your indifference towards worldly affairs made you succeed. In those days when you were chanting slogans in favor of an Islamic state, you were not thinking of your dresses, your homes or your conditions in life. If you had cared about these things, you would have never succeeded. You forgot about your personal life and were focusing on Islam. You had suffered a lot from the injustices and tyrannies in the past. You were looking for divine justice. Then you worked hard on your common objective. If we had been totally successful, we would have sat deliberating on our future reconstructions. However, our struggles are not over yet. Today resembles those early days of our revolution when you chanted slogans on the streets. Now that feature of the revolution has lost its color, but you are face to face with a huge superpower and its allies.

If we now stopped thinking of our revolution and each one of us went doing our own private businesses, the revolution would be stuck. It would retrogress. Your enemies would conspire together. Then, you too would scatter, thinking of the revolution no more. In those days you were united and nobody could harm you. Now, the satanic forces are plotting against you. If you discontinued taking the necessary precautions, they would attack you. You are half of the way now. If you had already reached the final stage of your revolution, you would have been safe. But now you are only halfway through. A caravan which has passed one bottleneck successfully should not think that everything is safe. They might encounter some highwaymen at succeeding bottlenecks and lose what they have. They would remain safe, however, if they stayed highly alert in passing the other bottlenecks. Now you have passed one bottleneck which was the monarchy; but there still other bottlenecks and obstacles along your way. If you steadfastly maintain the same zeal and enthusiasm you will be successful in traversing all the bottlenecks, you would be successful. Today, what is of utmost importance is to totally eliminate discord.

Those who do not wish that this Islamic Republic be established in Iran and who received blows from our nation know well that the source of these blows was Islam. Now they are using a step-by-step diplomacy to hinder our movement. At first, they opposed the use of the adjective" Islamic" with the word" republic." Then, they were reluctant to vote for such a state. Then they made troubles for the Assembly of Experts. Now that you want to elect your president, they are still making troubles. Later, they would create other problems for us when we want to hold elections for our representatives of the Consultative Assembly. They refuse to let an Islamic republic get established in this country, because they have suffered several blows from Islam. They have planned step-by-step strategies to oppose Islam. They plan to stop the election of a devoted, Muslim and sympathetic president who has no affiliation with either east or west. You progressed in your movement because you put aside your personal affairs and worked wholeheartedly for your Islam. Now we should continue moving this way until it is established, God willing.

The other issue our adversaries are following very serious is their attempt to divide us and bring about different groupings. They want to deprive us of the unity we had in which everybody was working for God. Any nation who suffers from lack of unity will, sooner or later, disintegrate. They are then vulnerable. If the population of a city or a province were not united and struggled against each other, they would vanish. The more united they are, the less vulnerable they will be. In our movement, this unity was superb. Nobody thought of the possible feud they might have had with others. All were united and asking for a unified objective. If you had in Tehran you would have heard the same slogans that your fellow country men were hearing in other parts of this country. The Tehranis were after the same thing as Abadanis. The same was true with people from Bandar `Abbas and Mashhad. All our people were united. You had created a unified community. Two things hurt your enemies: one was Islam; the other was your unity. Now, they are using their pens and their propaganda to deprive us of our Islam. They want to hinder Islam from taking roots in this country. Then they are planning to deprive you of your unity and cohesion. They want to divide us. They have specific plans against this unity. They plan to take away your solidarity.

The battalion of Satan and the army of Iblis have gone to and exist in Iran are still. They have created a lot of hubbub to sow discord. These evil forces are affiliated to the Great Satan. We ascribe any disturbances inside this land to these satanic elements. They plan to antagonize the Islamic Republic. They spread destructive rumors among our citizens and villages alike. They use different techniques to deceive these simple-hearted Muslims. Those are satans and these are decent human beings. They deceive these simple-hearted, naive Muslims under the pretext of Islam. They scatter propaganda leaflets among these Muslims. Their main objective is to divide the layers of our community. They disseminate unfounded rumors among the university students, farmers, businessmen, and factory workers. They carry out different types of pernicious acts to achieve their vicious ends. In the cities all over the country, they like to bring about divisions of all sorts. The people from the bazaar have befriended with university students who had cooperated a lot for this revolution. Now these devils are trying to divide them. We should wait and see to what degree is our nation vigilant. Has our nation deciphered the tricks of these evil doers? Has our nation found out about their plots? We are obliged to inform everybody of these conspiracies. This should be done more by our religious experts, orators, intellectuals, and the writers. Others, too, have got to inform the youth. Everybody should know that these evil-doers are liars. They use Islam to deceive others. Thus, we should always consider two issues: preserving our unity and Islamic direction heading towards Islam.

Another issue which is of main concern to these Satanic forces is how our government officials, the nation the revolutionary guards, the committee members, the judges, the army men play their roles. They are curious to know if we are act upon the Islamic standards or not. Our revolution is a transformation of the regime of arrogance into a regime of Islam and justice. We should not carry out improper acts in the name of Islam. It is an Islamic revolution. The revolutions elsewhere were non-Islamic in nature. Therefore, they were followed by all sorts of corruptions. But our revolution is an Islamic one. All of you have voted for an Islamic state. Of course, a few did not vote for it. But our Islamic republic won the vote. Therefore, they are obliged to accept it. This republic is accepted by our nation. Therefore, they should be loyal to it; they should not betray their obligation. Now you have entered into a contract with Islam. All of us are involved for Islam. All of us have sworn allegiance to Islam. Our allegiance means we want the Islamic republic because we have voted for it and we have sworn allegiance to it. If you have accepted it but do not act upon its regulations and laws you have broken your allegiance; it is a breach of contract. Every act of yours should be based on Islam. If you want to confiscate anybody's wealth and possessions, you should act in accordance with the Islamic laws. If you illegally confiscate anybody's wealth you have broken your allegiance. If a judge cannot prove that one has become wealthy through aggression and then illegally confiscates his possession, he has broken his allegiance to Islam. If one meter of anybody's land is confiscated irrespective of the Islamic laws, the allegiance to Islam is broken. If anybody carries out an act of injustice against somebody else, he has broken his allegiance to Islam. Every act of ours should be based on Islam. You cannot camouflage an arrogant act with an Islamic one. We are Muslims, not the arrogant ones. We should not be aggressive towards people. The revolutionary guards are not allowed to hurt people. Neither is a policeman allowed to hurt others. The courts should not issue un-Islamic verdicts. Every act of ours should be based on the Islamic regulations.

If everything becomes Islamic in a community, it will never degenerate; neither will it decay. On the contrary, a chaotic society will disintegrate very easily. The standards should be Islamic and everything should be carried out systematically. It is an Islamic community; therefore, our rules should be Islamic. In an Islamic community, only the rule of law dominates everything. At the time of the Great Prophet (s), too, law was the dominant factor. The Prophet (s) was the administrator of law. At the time of Imam `Ali (`a), too, the community was law-governed. Now everywhere, the laws should govern. That is to say, God should govern; God is the law. There is but one ruler and that is God. The law is divine law, and God execute it. We will act only opun these rules.

The Great Prophet (s) was at the top of all affairs in this world but God addressed him, saying" If you carry out anything against what I have said, I would serve the artery the heart. «1»" The Prophet (s) had to carry out what he was told by God. He was just an administrator. It is clear that the Prophet (s) could not have done anything wrong. This statement is only a warning to people so that they would not trespass the Islamic laws. God warns the first person in the world so that others would get the message. If the Prophet (s) is under scrutiny, so are people. If we break the Islamic laws, God will be tolerant only for a limited amount of time. But if it is prolonged, we do not know what will happen. Now, we are protesting against the aggressions of the United States. They have broken the Universal laws. We do not want to be like those aggressors in breaking the divine laws, however. If we did so we would be deprived of God's blessings. God then would make for us degenerate and decay one by one. Let us pray God to let us be the genuine followers of Islam. May God protect you all. Good luck. I once again thank you for your coming here in this cold weather. I hope that all of you, sisters and brothers, will be prosperous and healthy.