Speech [the fiasco of coup plot in Iran]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

We should work with determination. No one should show any sign of disappointment. Whoever shows disappointment, he does not know the situation in Iran. Our revolution differs with coup d'etat. Iran is not like Afghanistan. The Iranian people must know that it is not possible for any one to think of a coup d'etat. I such an idea enters in one's mind, he is destroying himself. Is our nation in a slumber? Coup d'etat need some primary things. One of them is the sleep of a nation. Next, the army should become a tool in their hands. The Iranian army cannot be such because majority of it is with the nation. Coup d'etat cannot be done by four or five persons who are against. This is only a propaganda spread by the enemy. And a few simple and plain-minded persons are fooled. Our nation has punished all the traitors of the past regime or it has expelled them. If any one happens even to think of it, our nation will crush and perish them.

Thank God. Army, guards and the nation are so together that they never will allow one to upraise against them. The population is thirty-five million. You don't heed the foolish words uttered within closed rooms. I assure you that no harm will be done to this nation. One day the Russian ambassador came to me. He said that Afghanistan has requested us for help. We want to enter Afghanistan. I told him that of course it is possible to capture Afghanistan. But, do you know that you cannot prolong there? Cannot continue your stay there? Anything if the nation doesn't want, doesn't happen. Now they have understood. But, their legs are plunged deep in the mud. The things will turn exactly the same as I have told. The Afghan government is by force imposed upon the people. So, it is anti-people, against the people and quite in agreement with the foreigners. But in Iran- the government, the people, the army, and the guards, all and all are together combined with one another. Once America comes and brings its army, the very moment it is eradicated and wiped out by the people. America must come to its senses that the case of Iran is not the same as that of Afghanistan. In Iran, all the people are of one voice and one word. Anyway, I thank the army, the guards and the gendarmerie. I hope that all of you cooperate with one another. You also know that if you are martyred, you are still prosperous. If you won the enemy, yet you are prosperous. This is the secret of the victory of Islam in its early days. Your enemies cannot think in these terms because they endear their life. They are after worldly profits and gains. The little army of Islam with their broken weapons and a little number of soldiers defeated two great armies of Rome and Iran.

May God assist you and grant you success.