Speech [American plot: To hurt the revolution from within; expounding the nation's duty]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

You youths committed to Islam and are at the disposal of Islam, may God preserve you. May He enhance upon your prosperity to attain more and more Islamic aims. What I understand and what seems to me more probable is that America will neither make military intervention nor imposes on us economic sanctions. If at all it does, it will go a failure. It is aware of this fact. But it has adopted the means which stand a base for its plot, and that is to strike the blow to us from within. A blow from within could prove more efficacious with far reaching repercussions. Perhaps in all the revolutions it is so. Those who want to attain gain for themselves, it seems that they should have lost something which they seek to be compensated. So their designs should be such as to make the revolution detrimental from within its structure.

Presently, the hands at work are to this effect that is to divert our minds from the happenings and the events our country is passing through. The whispers that are in the wind aboard about the military intervention and economical sanctions and etc., are also to this very effect toward making us to be negligent. Therefore, you should not be inadvertent about these Satans. They are well girded by their studies and observations, and hence will prepare while we have newly entered this valley. You are quite new in this field. Besides you have a sense of humanity also. This forbids you to conceive their diabolic and devilish tendencies while they in their satanic inducements are will verse. They have studied the things- not for ten years, not for a hundred years. Their knowledge stretches ever since they found the access to the East that is as longer the history goes. They have not learnt about the countries but their studies embrace the treasures and moneys hidden beneath the lands of the countries. They have exerted a long research over these matters. Motor vehicles, air planes, and other such things were still unknown and unseen. But they used to send experts to our country to investigate the land patch by patch. «1» They used to ride camels to travel these vast lands. They used to travel in caravans. Wherever whatever if they found they took notes as they kept dairies and drew maps. This constituted an angle of their job which furnished them the necessary information as to know the things your country has, and the hoards hidden therein. This is not a recent activity. This goes back as far as the construction of roads. They are after this errand since then. «2» There is another dimension in their activities and which much importance could be attached. Along with their investigations they also studied the conditions of the people of Iran and the people of Iran. Iran has many tribes such as that of Khouzestan, Bakhtiyari, and etc ... They used to delegate their men who infiltrated in the tribes, mingled them, and lived with them. They grasped the way of their life- their habits, their customs and so forth. This provided them a sufficient ground of knowledge as to how to provoke them or induce and incite them or how to make them idle or somnolent. They have invested a considerable length of time, labor and patience in this respect. As such their investigation is complete and consummate. Beyond and beside the tribes they have also investigations about common people. So they know how to create parties among them. They know how to create divisions among the people and upset their unity. Their investigations are wide and large. We should divert all our attention towards this point which is their plot presently. Their design is to create division among the people. The groups could be turned into enemies. Later they could reflect abroad to the effect that the Iranian people have no features that could distinguish them as a nation. There is no system, no law, no regulation to frame them into a disciplined society. You might have noticed these foreign new papers. The long and the short of it come to me. Even the writers of these papers also come to me. Among them are those still linked to the previous regime? They say and say and reiterate that it is not known as to where lay the gravity, or who directs the things in Iran, or who pilots the caravan. They so represent that one think or suppose that this country is breathing its last. It is at the verge of collapse. Bakhtiyar says in one his writings which perhaps I read yester night or today in the morning that Khomeini is taking his last breaths. What will be the fate of this country?

Such thoughts whether upon tongues or through pens represent their aim and intention. They want us to destroy ourselves by our hands the stability. This will give the country a feature of desertion that is no system, no organization, no government and nothing at all. Iran lacks a discipline everywhere- in army, police, gendarme, etc. This will serve them a ground if in case they want to intervene militarily, it could be justified. They want to sketch us in the eyes of the world incapable of being free and independent. In other words: freedom was too early for us. We are still immature to be at our own. They are writing by their venomous pens almost all the same thing. Freedom was accorded to them. But their country is in chaos. Everything is in a tumult. They will say that a nation there was which should have to be saved. We saved them. The topsy-turvy, the jugger-mugger would have succumbed the country. So we have taken upon us to be their guardians. It is still in need of a caretaker.

Our nation should have attention to this matter: Do not fear the foreign. Do not fear from the outside of the country that is from beyond the frontiers borders of Iran. Do fear the inside of the country, that is fear native elements rather than the foreign ones.

As you see each step we took forward towards the stability of the government they started the controversies and contradictions. People wanted to vote for the Islamic Republic but a group took the sides- this and that- in order to block the way for the Islamic Republic taking shape. They broke the ballot boxes. They set fire in some places. They impeded the way for the nation by their weapons and their own force. But, however, the nation went ahead. Their identity was exposed which was bashful to them. But they are not disheartened because they have not given up their purpose.

Later on at the occasion of the new constitution, those who are conversant with pen started writing objections. Some said:" Why now?" Some suggested the old one to be in its place. Some proposed a few codes to be changed of the old one. They created hindrances and obstacles when the council of experts was to be appointed. The nation again succeeded in appointing the parliament. And the parliament appointed the Council of Experts. As they were busy in sifting and winnowing the constitution, they too were busy in finding excuses and pretexts so as to claim that it is not national. Very odd, indeed! A thing the nation itself has voted and they say it is not national. Shouldn't necessarily be in line with the taste or inclination of a minority to become national or termed as rational? When it was decided that the nation should vote to determine the constitution they started blocking the way and creating hurdles in the run of the work. Now the nation wants to give its opinion through votes about the constitution and the appointment of a president of the Republic. You will see this stage if succeeded and the next one too; stability of the government will be enhanced. But, as usual they have again broken the ice. A hum-drum in Tabriz! Hugger-mugger in Qum, in Tehran, everywhere. Evidently they do not like the Islamic Republic to take a form, a shape. Each step the nation takes; they take the next step contrary to it. So they move step by step along with the nation. They are not disappointed or disheartened.

They are not disappointed even now. They do not want the choice of the people to win the elections. They do not want the man of the people to become the president. The number of candidates itself indicates their intention. 124 persons have nominated themselves for the candidacy to this office. What does it purport to mean? People do not know most of these candidates. Perhaps ten of them people might know. Among them it is quite likely men with insanity. I don't know but it is said that are. Among them it is told that there are deviated ones also. Anyway, such a gage number 124 why? What for? Do they really believe? Do they really think to win the greatest number of votes? No. It is a sort of interference and intervention. One hundred and odd- is the number 7 persons who want to become president of the republic. Some of them appear to be the vendors of vegetables. I don't know. But there appears to be such things among such a number of persons. I don't know them. It is in itself unfair that in a country one hundred and something more want to become president of the republic. You will see later that among them what groups will come out in canvassing and in their propaganda. Their anxiety is to become president and do not let a competent one to come forward. The least they can do is to create disturbances which would be reflected abroad to the disadvantage of Iran.

One hundred and odd persons want to become president of the republic. Right now they have fallen upon one another in hatred and revenge. You will see later what they have in store for each other. All this is in itself a chaos, a tantrum, truculence. On the other hand we are ignorant of these matters. Our youths too are negligent in this respect. Later God alone knows what will happen in the event of parliament taking a form. Worst of all is suppose as a matter of fact two hundred persons will have to be deputies in the parliament. But several thousands will choose themselves to be candidates. They want to become president so as to avoid real things take place. Once we too used to confront persons who in their belief did not consider our path a right one. In their thought their own was a correct one. But, to deal with them was within reason. They had much reasons that they used to discuss among themselves as to know whose way is correct. But, here the case is not that. They fear one thing and that is Islam. They fear a group, and that is those who believe in Islam and are active in the service of Islam. These big powers have received a slap from Iran. A slap which they had never tasted throughout their lives.

The world war: It was a war between two big powers. One power was at this side and with it some of the governments while similarly another power was on that side with a few governments. They were equipped with guns and cannons the things that were at that time. The both sides fought each other- one telling upon the others like. The same thing was with the First World War also. That time you were not in existence. But I well remember both the wars. That time it was like this: two powers confronted each other. One fought the other till it told upon one of them. In world war two also the same two powers fought against each other that are the two groups differed with each other with their power and strength. They hit and fought each other till one overran the other. But the case of Iran differs. It is not between two powers standing against each other. It was one group, one camp. Governments were together having all the power and strength in their hands. There was the Shah (the deposed one). America was behind him. The Soviet Union was at his backing. All the countries were with him and regrettably even the Islamic countries.

During my stay in Paris, I was confronting these matters. America was in search of an aim. «3» They were insisting on a thing while the Shah was here. When a successor «4» still more badly was appointed they were still insistent. Later they used to tell me" don't go to Iran. It is yet early. It is not in your interest to go to Iran now." Strange, it is that our enemies were deciding what is good for us. Nation that has no weapons nor does it knows its art. A group from bazaar, a group of ladies, a vast group of youths, a group from university and so forth- none of them had undergone any military training nor did they have any weapons with them. At the most perhaps you were having four or five rifles which too came to your possession by way of spoil. The only weapon under your use was the tires which burnt. This was the response from your side to the tanks and machine guns at that side. But the victory gained by you was bestowed by God. It was the will of God. We are negligent about these divine victories. The reason is that the appraisal was for God. The nation was the victim. It was an oppressed nation. It cried and shouted that we want Islamic Republic. We do not want tyranny and oppression. So, God too helped this nation. God has blessed this nation with unique victories unprecedented in history except that of the early stages of Islam. So such is our nation. God inserted and injected a fear in their hearts. This fear became the ground for our victory. Indeed, it was in itself a victory.

Sometimes the army of Islam attained victories through such fears. A dread was dissipated in the hearts of the enemy through out a squadron, a brigade, a battalion. Sometimes the fear was to this effect that these Arabs eat a man that is the human flesh. Such a fear gripped the enemy and held him from doing anything. Similar is the case that happened with our nation. This is an issue of God's help. Except God no one could have done anything in the favor of this nation. In a gathering of thirty and odd people all should demand one thing, all to go one way- is it possible? Can such a thing happen? No one can do such a thing even at the roll of propaganda. One invests twenty years in propaganda. And yet he cannot gain a hold upon the bazaar. In a very short time we saw throughout Iran that all the people united at one word.

During my stay in Paris, someone came to me from Iran. Now I don't recollect as to who he was. He said that he went around when he was in Iran the villages of Palag and Kamre «5». He named the place which I know. One of these places which he mentioned I have visited. It is a village. No, it is not a village but only a fort and that too in a hill. He said all these places he visited, the clergy there used to go around in the morning people to follow him. It was a demonstration. He told me that he went to that fort. It is named Hasan Falak «6». I have gone there. I have seen it. They too shout what in Tehran is being said. They echo the Tehran's voice. In Paris when I heard this, I became hopeful that we shall be victorious. When a nation campaigns like this at such a level, it is obvious that a hand from the unseen is at work. Else, it is not possible to achieve such a victory by propaganda or by lecturing or by a clergy over the pulpit. It is something related to the will of God. God willed and we gained the victory. Thanks to God. I hope that we always shall remain victorious. Anyway, in any case, our nation should be advertent to this important thing and that is they want to hurt us from within. They want to weaken us to the extent that we could be vulnerable easily and quickly without the strength to campaign. This was a plot which they carried out simultaneously in Qum and Tabriz. Here too in a particular way it took place at the same hour on Friday afternoon. In Tabriz what happened was quite the same that took place here. It seems it was one group separated into two batches. One batch carried out the plan here while the same plan was carried out in Tabriz by another. I am informed that in Tabriz they are again getting ready and gathering themselves for the same malefic plot. They do not want the country to become stable and established. Its reflection in the foreign countries could be this that the people are still immature to have freedom. Therefore, we should try hard with all our strength to foil this plot. In other words, every one in his place and position should perform the job well and good. He should do the work in Islamic spirit. His trust should be in Islam. You at the spot where you are, these sisters wherever they be, and farmers in their own place- all should perform their respective jobs in an Islamic way and spirit. If we do so, calm will return everywhere. A discipline and an order will cover the things. Likewise, in military, in police, in guards, in girders- everywhere if duties done in an Islamic spirit things will go in order besides the progress. Now your country is in need of campaign in the same spirit that you had in the beginning. No one among you was thoughtful of his own needs. You remember that time when you used to go out in the streets and shout" Allahu Akbar". This regime should go! You were never concerned as to what is the lunch today or how is the house today. It is quite obvious if you were concerned about yourselves this victory could have never been achieved. Of course, every revolution entails troubles. The thing is one step you advanced and the victory appeared to you. You saw yourselves victorious- thanks to God. Now when we have gained victory you have taken backward steps. You retreated to your past situation. You became concerned about your own condition. You see many inconveniences, many things undesirable. They too started to enhance thereupon. They created troubles. Troubles at this time! They went to the factory holders to see how much you are paid- whether much or less. How is our house? And how is theirs? Similarly they approached the farmers, the schools and everywhere else. Wherever they could, they went. Now it is the period that entails the revolution. Dissatisfaction comes into being. So, they spread and disseminated dissatisfaction to make it more and more. Now they are busy in doing it further and further.

Our nation's duty presently is to prolong and continue the campaign in the same way it was in the beginning. Nobody was concerned as to what he had and what he had not. The same campaign should go on till the government is fixed and settled. Now we are in the middle of the way- uncertain. We have not reached the zenith. We have reached a certain extent where some of the tools necessary to a government are accomplished such as the constitution which is voted, and the fundamental of Islamic Republic too is voted. But we are short of the president of the republic and the parliament. The parliament should perform all the things. But the thing is our country has no stability. the thing that we must do is to preserve the same appraisal so far we have had to enable us to do the rest in calm and safety. If we get ourselves involved in differences over the precedent, or shall I say, over those who are supposed to be elected to have the access to the parliament, then these differences will be wide and large. Of course, in every government such differences are usual and normal. But since no established government exists now, these differences would be multiplied into several hundred folds. The ground too is already known and ready. It is obvious what do they want. For the presidency, there are one hundred and twenty and odd candidates- I would like to say that it is a plot. If we happen to be negligent or so ignorant as to do not understand that these one hundred and twenty and odd persons what they want to do, we will be at loss. None of these men even was in the field before. Now they have induced and incited them to go forward and get themselves elected. By this means they want to create a tumult and truculence. Later, God alone knows, what would happen at the time of the election of deputies. So we should keep our eyes wide open. Everyone among us should make his job in Islamic spirit. We should not consider that our campaign is not yet ripe. Otherwise, we will remain on the way and on the way too are robbers in ambush.

All our youth in all the places should admonish the people while propagating, speaking, and talking with them. They should invite them to be together, to be united. Thanks God they are. They are also on good terms with one another. But they should increase their unity. They should get is glued and cemented more closely. We should cut their greed or they themselves should not fall greedy. We should not let them swallow our country. They are themselves greedy and covetous. They don't abash either. We must do the job. We all are duty-bound to preserve the unity we had, the oneness we had, and more important that belief we had which was the reason for our success. So, we should bake these breads too when the furnace is still hot. One is the presidency of the republic and the other the elections of the parliament. We should bring these two breads baked out of the furnace. Then the rest will be easier. God willing.

May God help you all, assist you, and bless you. May God keep you safe and healthy. I pray for all of you. I hope you will not be negligent. Do have attention towards God. Everything is from Him. Nothing is from us. All is He. So ask Him for all you want. Trust Him. Go Ahead.