Decree [The appointment of the administrator of the Iranian pilgrims to Mecca]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Ramadan al-Mubarak 5,1400 AH/Tir 27, 1359 AHS
The honorable Hujjat al-Islam Aqa Haj Shaykh Muhammad Rida Tavassuli Mahallati- may his graces last:
I have appointed you as the administrator of the pilgrims to the House of God [i. e. the Ka`bah: the holy shrine revered by all Muslims located in Mecca, Saudi Arabia] in order to improve the performance of the great obligation of hajj and administer the affairs pertaining to this obligation, and to increase the level of Islamic practice among the groups of pilgrims, and also to take care of issues related to this task. You must, with the assistance of Hujjat al-Islam Haj Sayyid `Ali Hashemi Golpaygani and the council of those appropriate officials, set up an assembly of competent, responsible and faithful individuals in order to cover all the affairs of hajj. Moreover, if the hajj affairs coincide with the affairs of another government organization, like the Red Crescent, the officials responsible for those affairs must be approved by you [as well]. And you are duty-bound to select faithful and responsible individuals for those tasks. I hope that you have in mind the great humanitarian, spiritual, political and social aspects of hajj and that you take the opportunity of hajj to inform the pilgrims of the [main] social and political events of the year in the world of Islam. I must necessarily point out that all the signs of" shirk" «1» (this is the meaning that Imam intends here) that is removing all signs of the overthrown Shah and his regime as an authority that were revered like God and taghout must be removed from all the various stages of this holy pilgrimage. May you, God willing, be successful and triumphant.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini