In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Colonel Sayyid Shirazi, Commander of the army; Mr. Muhsin Rida'i, Commander of the Revolutionary Guard,
I received your telegraph about the great victory around Gilan-e Gharb and Sarpol Zuhab. Thank God, the Muslim combatants of Iran, withtrust in God and driven by the need to preserve Islam and the Islamic country of Iran, have achieved dramatic victories over the devilish forces in all the fronts of the war, which is a source of pride for the Islamic nation and all the strata of the great Iranian nation- the land of martyrs of virtue and the base of the brave people.
This time the divine majesty started shining in Gilan-e Gharb and Sarpol Zuhab theaters and purged there from the contaminated presence of the agents of America." Verily you did not throw though it looked as if you did, it was God who threw it." «1» The great Islam and the history of Islam will not forget the sacrifices made by these brave youth of the military, paramilitary and popular troops. Commanders, soldiers and guards of the country of Hadrat Mahdi (our souls may be sacrificed for him) are a source of pride in the disgrace and humiliation incurred on the agents of America inside and outside the country, who, open fire on Islam and Muslims to integrate themselves with the U. S. will also be recorded in our history.
Let the international criminals and the agents of criminals overlook these great victories and let them pool the wool over the disgrace of American Saddam by twisted propaganda.
On behalf of the great nation of Iran I congratulate the combatants and commanders in the West and Sarpol Zuhab on this great victory and I implore God to grant ultimate victory to Islam over global blasphemy.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini