Speech [Fulfillment of duties - propaganda against the revolution in Iran]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

You are today from military forces of Islamic Republic, being different from your past. Wittingly or unwittingly, you were yesterday part of the taqot regime and now affiliated to Islamic regime. Between these two, there is a wide difference- one is a satanic regime and the other God's. There should also be a difference between those affiliated to this establishment and those of the past. The difference is that all the groups affiliated to the Islamic Republic, be they the government, administrative organizations, military, gendarmerie, police, pasdars (Islamic Revolution Guards Corps) and law enforcement, they are originally affiliated to the Islamic Republic. Therefore, their deeds, actions, beliefs and ethics should conform to Islamic Republic. If the ethics for example some people had developed commensurate with taqot, God forbids, still prevails, one should struggle to obliterate them. Now you gentlemen have great responsibility and your deeds are noble, as the skeleton of Islamic Republic depends on you. Your responsibility is therefore great because if formerly you did a wrong act, it would be argued that the regime was taqot and such things are common. If, however, we do something countering Islam, it would be argued that Islamic army is also the same as taqot. You know that treacherous pens and tongues with evil eyes are on the look out to find an excuse from any one of the Islamic groups to aggrandize it and arguing that the Islamic regime is also like the taghout regime. Today morning, I saw a magazine related to Bakhtiyar and read therein that Bakhtiyar has said that the Islamic regime is also a taqot regime engaged in plundering and so and so. In one of the writings, I read that some places in Iran is under martial law because people have turned their back to the regime and the government is subduing the people by force and arm. Well, these are things they are reflecting outside of Iran. Now that they have found no pretext, they are presenting such impressions. If once they find an excuse that we have not acted the way we should, this excuse would serve the pens attempting to break this revolution and cannot see an Islamic regime established would embark on tarnishing the image of this revolution. We should preserve our school. I mean to say that the school of Islam is now in our hands and in your hands. This school should be protected. We should not act in a way that they can find fault with our school. Those who want to raise objection target the school, because they are at loggerheads with the school. They see a school being stable, they criticize the school. Therefore, we are obliged to protect this school or else it would sustain damage. We should act in a way that the school is not hurt. That which we should do to protect the school from any damage is to fulfill our duties wherever we are. If people in a country are duteous and well perform the duties devolved upon them, that country would be improved soon. If army personnel are dutiful, particularly now that they work for Islam, Islamic duty calls for fulfillment of duty. If gendarmerie thinks in this light and so do pasdars (Islamic Revolution Guards Corps) and the police, things would be reformed soon. If, God forbid, people fail to fulfill their duty and imagine that now that they are free they can do whatever they wish and fail to act according to duty, this state of affairs would result in chaos and the system would be hurt.

They are now planning to demonstrate to foreign countries that Iran is not stable and embroiled in chaos. They want to prepare the world public opinion if once they want to interfere. They are now engaged in such plan. All their propaganda aim to reflect to the world that Iran is running into lawlessness. There is no order anywhere; there is no feeling of duty anywhere; anyone doeos whatever one wishes. This brings up great responsibility and costs us dearly to introduce us in the world in a way as to give them right to bring in their military forces to train us as if we are a population that is not educated, a community that seek chaos with no order and incorrigible. Therefore, a guardian should come to train us. This is painful for a country launching an Islamic Revolution. As such, our duty is Islamic and heavy, yet it should be fulfilled. I hope God will sanction you. I wish you success and hope that you would proceed with health, happiness and power. God wiling, you are victorious.