Speech [Enemy's objective is to eliminate committed forces; Need for alertness of the nation and heeding the country's crucial issues]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Verily, we belong to God and to Him we shall return

I condole all family members of the martyrs and the great Iranian nation. We are from God; whatever we have belongs to Him. We posses nothing by ourselves and whatever we contribute to Islam is in fact a gift bestowed on us by God, to Whom we return the gifts. These trusts rushed to God proudly and purely honouring this nation and the whole oppressed nations throughout the world. They became the pioneers, and all the martyrs ever since Khordad 15 th are the source of pride to this nation and all oppressed nations throughout the world. What is important for us is to see what we have to do. They rendered whatever service they could to Islam and then God Almighty destined them to rush to His attendance.

The important point for us is to fulfill our duties and to act according to what God Almighty has ordered. For those who enjoy a good relation with God, martyrdom of their beloved ones is not a matter of serious concern. The important point is that those martyrs contributed their fair share to Islam. They have served their part, but they were valuable assets for this nation and we have lost them. All the same, we need to follow their path vigilantly. A current that has been at work against our Islamic revolution since its inception was to eliminate the assets of the revolution. This was not something of an accident. All effective individuals who were the assets of this revolution were assassinated one after the other. There were yet others, whom the enemies attempted to martyr, but God saved them. It was not quite accidental that a terrorist assassinated Martyr Mutahhari, another one assassinated Martyr Mofatteh, one attempted to assassinate Mr. Hashemi and another one tied to kill Mr. Khamene'i. Or the assassination of the late Mr. Beheshti, or these ministers that were all valuable assets for Islam, are none quite accidental. They were pre-planned attempts and dare still underway. For the very moment that the revolution started to take shape, we have been witness to such plots.

Sanctions were imposed on this nation ever since the day people attempted to vote in favor of the Islamic Republic of Iran. A group, boycotted the referendum, and when the Experts Assembly was founded, objections were raised against its establishment. Later when they noticed that it was established and the deputies in it were prominent clerics or learned men in line with Islam, the objections started. Some people even proposed its dissolution, but God saved it. It was not accidental that when the Islamic Consultative Assembly was going to be established, oppositions were raised once again. When it was established, some of the issues that were beneficial for the country and for Islam were faced with the opposition of certain MPs within the parliament. Such issues were all different phases of the same plot. That trend is associated with this revolution. It still exists today, and would continue in the future. It is not quite accidental that someone in the parliament criticizes and argues against an article that serves the interests of Islam and ensures that the revolution follows its Islamic path «2». It is not quite incidental that after that event Islamic government was decried. The Islamic Consultative Assembly that predominately consists of its pious and committed individuals is scolded. The deputies are accused of being inefficient. It is not the question of competency of the government or the parliament. The point is that this Majlis should not be Islamic and this government should not be Islamic.It was not the question of Mr. Beheshti. You saw which persons were remonstrated with in one or two years. It was not the question of individuals, but rather the current that was opposed to the original idea. The story of coordination offices throughout the country was not an accident. The opposition against the Islamic government and attack against the government in their words and writings, often accusing the government of incompetence, was not accidental. The question is not that the judiciary has fallen into the hands of monopolists. This is not the point. Such matters are not even the major concern of those who raise these issues. The point is the United States and Islam. The point is that an American current is working against Islam. From the very beginning when they felt that the Shah had to step down, they brought Bakhtiyar. He was member of a nationalist group. In order to be on the safe side, they also stressed that he was no longer a member of their party or front. That cautious measure was adopted so that if he would be cast aside, a front would still remain in force. At the very time when the pillars of monarchy began to grow rickety, this trend came to the force. In fact, it surfaced when I was in Paris. Attempts were then in progress to keep the Shah, suggesting that the Shah remain king without the ruling rights. In this way, they wanted to keep him. They tried to make up between Bakhtiyar and I, as if we had a personal dispute with Bakhtiyar! A concerted and planed current was at work at the very beginning and we were not paying due attention to it. Their real intentions were gradually revealed. They betrayed themselves with their deeds till the process of developments took us to this point. I had earlier done my best to prevent it, but to no avail. It is not because I trusted these people but due to the concerns of which I have talked to the gentlemen themselves. Now at this point, their efforts aimed at keeping the Shah in power, taking Bakhtiyar to the scene, bringing to power the Monarchy Council and opposing the establishment of the Islamic Republic, Experts Assembly, the Consultative Islamic Assembly and later on the government and the judiciary. It was not because they were opposed to Reja'i, Beheshti, Hashemi and the Friday prayer leader of Tehran. Why should they have been opposed to these people? A trend was at work to eliminate committed people. If they could succeed to seclude these people and segregate them from the people, so much the better. In order to achieve that goal they spread rumors, even accused Mr. Beheshti, Mr. Khamenei, Mr. Such and such, or Mr. Hashemi of bagging the rationed goods aimed for the war-stricken citizens. Whatever crime they committed in Iran themselves they told the people it was committed by these people. That was, and still is a trend by which they attempt to drag our country towards the United States. Well, if they would succeed to Americanize this country, the Soviet Union, too, would gain its fair share of it. The U. S. cannot have it all alone. They must be together and the Russians, too, are shareholders. But those developments passed one after the other and they bore no fruit for the Americans. They gained nothing out of this mass killing that is unprecedented in the history of the world parliaments and governments. Now, they have resorted to creating chaotic conditions. They want to destroy things and weak destruction on this country.

Our nation's duty today is that everyone should remain alert all the time, and to control the suspicious traffic of strangers. If the nation is sitting and expecting merely for the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), the revolutionary committees, and the government to offer them services, they are mistaken. All members of the nation are responsible today to closely follow the developments. These saboteurs have now crawled to corners and are busy pursuing their destructive plots. Unfortunately, they work to deceive our heedless young boys and girls. Parents should be quite alert lest their children might slide into corruption. If the water is muddied, the plotters would either succeed in fishing or else strive to destroy the family foundations. All parents, family members, near and distant relatives are responsible for enlightening the minds of these cheated boys and girls. Recommend them not to go the way that is contrary to the interests of Islam and the nation. Do not sit indifferent and wait for your children to go among the people, resort to criminal acts, get arrested and punished both in this and the next world. Do not let this happen. These children have been cheated; they need to be advised by those who truly care for them. I wonder how these youths are so easily cheated by such slogans as" We want to do something for this nation"," We want to eliminate these akhounds from your lives"," They merely heed their own interests, but we want to do something for you." I wonder why these youths do not think about the real deeds of the people who chant such slogans. A farmer works hard for a lifetime and then a hypocrite strikes a match reducing to dust the fruit of his whole life. Such people then claim they want to do something for our nation. They flock to the streets and start massacring ordinary passersby, blindly assassinate the ordinary motorists, brutally behead people and set fire to the property of the people. Then, they claim to be working for the interests of the people. Every single one of the people is today responsible for identifying and introducing these saboteurs to the revolutionary committees, to the courts or to any close- by responsible organ or authority. Do not take action personally. Just identify and, at most, arrest one and submit to the Guard Corps or the disciplinary forces. Do not sit indifferent and wait for others to do something for you. The country's interests are the same as the interests of the people. Today, the situation is not like the past when the people were not taken into account due to the oppressive conduct of a tyrant government. There is no longer a totalitarian regime intending to reap all the national interests for itself, leaving the nation quite deprived. Today is the day when you want to work for the advancement of this country hand in hand with each other to disentangle people from the grip of the corrupt powers outside the country.

Today, all of you should act as members of the country's intelligence organization. We are all responsible for introducing these saboteurs to the disciplinary forces and courts if we find them. We should be after finding them so that they be put on trail. The trials, too, must be just ones, according to religious standards. Do not sit indifferent, letting these saboteurs to launch vaster terrorist attacks. These are paid mercenaries commissioned to expand the dimensions of their terrorist attacks. They are commissioned to create chaotic conditions throughout the country and inflict as many human and material losses as they can against the nation. They assume are under the false assumption that the nation may gradually get scared and abandon treading the path it has chosen. They want to enter the scene as soon as the nation stops pursuing its objectives, gets scared or withdraws. Their next plan would be to topple the government and dissolve the parliament, replacing them with a government and a parliament that would be seemingly Islamic, but actually in a way to please the Americans. We should not just sit and watch. We should act effectively. If we have dedicated martyrs, we need to feel more responsible. Those who have dedicated martyrs need to act more effectively and find those who have committed these crimes because they have lost precious personalities.

The whole nation should pay attention to the war. These massacres are perhaps carried out to divert the attention of the people from war to lose the war, God forbid. That is impossible, but they might prolong the war. The whole nation should pay close attention to the war. The most urgent need today is to achieve victory and we would, God-willing, achieve it. The fact that we have lost many valuable personalities should not distract our minds form the ideals of the martyrs. After all, those ideals were the framework of their conduct. We should not forget that our martyrs in the parliament, in the government and in the judiciary were all after achieving victory in the war. They wanted us to drive the wretched mercenaries of the United States and the Soviet Union out of this country's sacred land. They wanted us to build a free and independent Islamic country. We should not forget their path. At the top of all affairs should be helping to lead the war to victory. At any rate, we have responsibilities. I talked in details yesterday about the responsibility the whole nation has to shoulder. Men and women and those who are eligible to vote are obliged to turn out at the polls to elect the president. If you show laxity, those who wish to destroy this country might win. All of you, all of us, men and women, any one that is of the required aged to perform their religious duties should decide their fate. We received a slap due to a mistake. All the deficiencies we are grappling with are due to the mistake we have made. This mistake should not be repeated. Try to find one who is completely in line with Islam as president. All groups and parties, clerics and people across the country should avoid making mistake in this vital task; otherwise, we have to face another ouster and start from scratch. Of course, they cannot do anything, except making a hue and cry, but the same hue and cry would be harmful for us under the current conditions. Today, taking any uncertain step or remaining silentin the face of an event will be to our detirment. We need to be active and move forward. If we retreat one step backward, they would take a step forward. Our army, our gendarmerie, our Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) our border guards and our Basij forces should proceed actively. If we show laxity, they would step forward; if we take one step back, they would take ten steps forward. We should resolutely and bravely drive the leftovers of the U.S out of our country in arenas we are defending Islam. This is their duty. The duty of those who are serving behind the war fronts is to join hands with the combatants. If armed forces feel assured that the nation is backing them they will become several times more active. You should make them understand that you are supporting them, as you are. You proved it to the whole world that we are a nation linked to our army and armed forces and that we serve them behind the fronts, and they serve us and Islam in the warfronts.

We should not forget that we are at war with the United States. We are at war with the U. S. and its residues. These leftovers disguised themselves and we took it too easy with them. They are still around. All of you are responsible for identifying them one by one and turning them in to the courts of justice. Do not sit till they set another place on fire. All they care for is sabotage. They do not care who it is that gets killed or what is destroyed. They feel no personal enmity with anyone either. Well, they massacred over seventy of our best youth, without even knowing many of them. All they cared for was to create chaotic conditions by an explosion, causing people to leave the stage. But they noticed their act backfired. The martyrdom of these men solidified our people. It also revealed the real intentions of these hypocrites who claimed to be endeavoring for people's freedom and for such and such. It downed on us what sort of freedom they want. They wanted freedom for explosion. They deemed explosion freedom! They also wanted freedom for the hypocrites to frequent among our people so that after a year they would be able to allure a large number of our youths. They wanted to be able to do many of their secret activities openly. It is not without reason that in those addresses for the masses on Ashoura many of the audience were whistling and clapping. On the day that our infallible and innocent Imam (`a) was martyred, they whistle and clap their hands, while listening to the sermon made by one who loves them, forgetting all about the U. S. The line these people pursued was to push the US into the oblivion. Some people were talking about the Soviet threat just in order to make us forget about the American threat. A group abandoned the crying Allahu Akbar (God is the Greatest) and started whistling and clapping their hands on the Day of `Ashoura. The strategy was aimed at making the people forget the cry of Down With the U. S. A.

Therefore, you noticed that the day our dear alert youths captured the espionage den (the U.S. Embassy in Tehran), these devils started a helpless struggle. One of them said that these people are in line with Satan «3». They inculcated the idea that we are now the hostages in the hands of the U. S. This does not mean that they did not understand we are not captives in the hands of the Americans. They wished to deprive us of our independence and slip us into the lap of the U. S. Therefore, the seizure of the espionage den was intolerable for them, because their espionage documents were also found. All those efforts and insistence for freeing them, saying that we were the U. S. hostages insisting on letting go of them, were intended at other objectives. They had labelled our dear youth that claimed to be in Islam's line, to be in line with Satan. Their real fear was that may be one day their espionage documant be disclosed and their real face be unmasked.

I now advise those who are not deeply involved in devious path to separate their path from that of the hypocrites who have risen up against Islam. Telling me not to show harsh treatment signifies that we and they are the same. Those whom I do not think have not seen their" epistemology" and have released their ideology book which the gentlemen might have seen should separate their path from us whom they consider to be Muslims, however bad Muslims. You noticed that Mr. Bani Sadr did not separate his path, and God knows I told him several times that they would drag him into misery. I told him that the wolves that had gathered around him did not believe in anything and that they would eventually destroy him. But he did not listen to my advice. He kept swearing that they were selfless, that they were such and such people. He meant the people that had gathered around him were decent people and I knew very well they were not so. He confirmed the fine conduct of a group who used to rob ministries. Well, was it not he himself that confirmed the theft from the ministry? They were so simple-minded that they confirmed that. Now too, I tell these gentlemen who are really well-intentioned, those who are truly after reforms toward better conditions, but who are not intelligent enough, that the United States is no good for you. That day is gone now. Today, the one that is beneficial for you, for your religion and for your world is this nation. It is this bare feet nation. That capitalist nation, too, would do you no good. They kill to secure their own interests. They want to make instrumental use of you. These hypocrites, too, would do you no good. The day these hypocrites gain power, they will behead you, because you chant" There is no god, but Allah" and they are opposed to this. The monotheism they believe in is monotheism of social classes. Their hereafter is in this world. They do not believe in anything outside this world, but you do. The day these would emerge victorious, you would, God forbid, be sacrificed. They have made a bridge out of you that would lead them towards victory, but after passing over this bridge, they would definitely destroy it. They do not need anyone to interfere in their affairs. I tell the gentlemen once again that now in the holy fasting month of Ramadan, Almighty God has opened all doors of repentance towards the sinners. Before it gets too late, take advantage of the situation in this month of Ramadan and improve yourselves. We are all in need of improving ourselves. None of us is a perfect human being. We need to take refuge in God's mercy and improve ourselves. We need to renew allegiance with this roaring flood of responsible people and to align ourselves with them. Swimming against the current of the flood destroys human beings. Swimming against the crushing waves of the sea annihilates men. You have not abandoned Islam, but those who have launched an uprising against Islam, who flocked to the streets, fully armed, and massacred the people, even if they did not kill the people, Islam has issued a clear verdict against them. You all know what it is. I want you to declare openly that clear Islamic verdict. Issue a communique about it. Declare that the verdict about corrupt individuals, who took to the streets and scared the people is in accordance with God's order. Declare that Islamic verdict clearly and sign it on behalf of your group «4». Well, why do you hesitate so much? What do you expect these people to do for you? I pray to Almighty God to help us succeed in this holy month, in this truly blessed month, to repent before Him for all the sins we have committed. I also pray to Him to rid us of the material temptations, and to assist us, and to keep our mighty nation as strong as they are, God-willing. And I pray that our army and other armed forces would emerge victorious in this war, God-willing. And Islam is, and will always be victorious, God-willing.

May God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you.