In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
His Holiness John Paul II,
Your letter expressing your anxiety on worsening the relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America is received.
I appreciate your Holiness' goodwill. I would like to assure you that our global campaigner nation has regarded this breakage of relations as a good omen. They feasted the occasion with dances and illuminations.
I thank you for your prayers to God for the sake of our nation. However, I would like to remark your Holiness not to entertain any anxiety and worry in presuming greater dangers and malevolent motive towards our nation. The Islamic nation would welcome the troubles the breakage of the relations happens to give birth to. We are not in dread of the dangers you have pointed out. If the relations like those existed in the past treacherous regime happened to be renewed, that would be a dangerous day for our nation. We hope God the Almighty not to let it happen.
Your Holiness enjoys good influence upon the moral among the Christian nations. I respectfully request you to exert your influence and admonish the consequence of the pillage, atrocities and applying undue force against the nations by American government. Please advise Mr. Carter who is facing a total defeat to behave humanely with the nations that want to be fully independent and do not want to be affiliated to any power in the world. Let him follow the teachings of Jesus (peace of God upon him). Let him not revile and belittle himself and the American government beyond this.
I pray to God for the happiness of the oppressed people of the world. I hope that the hands of the tyrants to be cut.
Rouhullah Mousawi Khomeini
Farvardin 25,1359 AHS