In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
People's presence on the scenes will thwart conspiracies
I welcome all of you who have come here today from the far-off frontiers of this country and are and have been striving in the service of Islam. As you all know, today Iran has been invaded by foreign powers and is facing various internal conspiracies. The keen participation and presence of both the men and the women of this great nation and Islamic society is heartwarming. Your presence on the scenes raises hopes that neither will the internal conspirators succeed in implementing their satanic plots and nor will the foreign aggression be able to harm this nation. Iran is a nation that is actively present on the scenes even today, as it was in the early days of the movement, thereby insuring the interests of Islam and this country with their presence. Certain elements have been imagining and propagating that the people of Iran have become indifferent toward Islam and the Islamic Republic. At times they have even gone to the extent of saying that the Iranian people have turned against the Islamic Republic. Let them come and see for themselves that all over Iran, all the Iranian Muslim men and women from the various sects as well as the religious minorities, except some corrupt elements of the previous regime or the stooges of the East or the West, are all faithful to the Islamic Republic and continue to support it with the same enthusiasm that existed in the early days of the Revolution.
Has anyone forced you all to come here from the far-off frontier areas of Makou and claim that you are as faithful to Islam as before?! Is this an exhibition of anything but your feelings and real faith in Islam? Could the previous regime ever force you to go anywhere collectively? Has anyone compelled you to come from distant places and to renew your ties and bonds with Islam and to prove your presence in the scenes as well as the warfronts and behind the warfronts? Is this anything but your faith in Islam and your love for Islam and your country?
All of you, men, women, the young and the old, should be actively present on the scenes and just as you severed the hands of the big powers in the early days of the Revolution, you should thwart their conspiracies in this country. Your country is under foreign aggression and your nation is subjected to sinister propaganda and conspiracies. However, through your unity and collective participation in Islamic matters and in the affairs of your country you will succeed in driving off the foreign conspirators who have once again sharpened their claws to plunder your country like they did earlier. May God Almighty grant you and the entire nation success in establishing Islam in this country in the manner that would win divine pleasure! This calls for our entire nation to be actively present on the scenes and for them to stay vigilant and to identify those who breach the laws of Islam and to punish them and keep them away from social activities.
I pray to God Almighty to grant you, the entire nation, and all the oppressed people of the world with success! I also thank all of you for taking the trouble of coming here from far and wide and for accommodating yourselves in this rather cramped place and I pray for your salvation in this world and in the hereafter!
May God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you.