In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
You are hereby notified of the following points:
1. The Commanding Council must be obeyed without question, and violators must be swiftly and conductively determined, and duly punished.
2. Persons and authorities who have no responsibility in the concerned matters must refrain from interfering in the work of the Commanding Council. The Commander-in-Chief, acting as my representative, «1» and the Commanding Council are the authorities responsible for the affairs of the war.
3. In the present circumstances, the military courts are forbidden to proceed without my approval with cases that the Commanding Council deems inadvisable.
4. The Radio and Television organization is duty-bound to broadcast the news whose veracity has been proved one hundred percent, and, in order to prevent public anxiety and fear, news from sources that are not reliable must not be broadcast.
5. It is the duty of the security forces to arrest promptly all those people who spread rumors, no matter who they are, and hand them over to the Revolutionary Courts. The aforesaid courts must deal with them as counter-revolutionar and punish them accordingly. The combatant people of Iran are duty-bound to report the rumor-mongers to these courts and to cooperate with the security forces.
6. It is the duty of the newspapers in the present circumstances to refrain strictly from publishing articles and news that undermine the armed forces. Doing so in the present situation is against reason and religion, and only serves the counter-revolutionar. I have always supported the armed forces, and now that they are fighting Saddam the infidel on the battlefronts, I wish to thank them and appreciate their endeavors. I ask God the Almighty to grant them success and victory.
7. All the people and the organs of government must positively put an end to their petty disputes as such disputes serve the interest of Islam's enemies.
May God's peace be upon you.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini