Speech [Documents of the crimes of the US and Saddam]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

I thank you brothers and dear ones who have come here despite your ailment, causing me to feel regret as well as pride. You dear ones, your relatives, the martyrs and their families have documents to produce. Your existence is indicative of two documents: first, the document of the crime committed by the US and the US-affiliated Saddam and, second the authentic document of your bravery. You demonstrated your commitment. You have demonstrated that you are committed to Islam, the noble Qur'an and the Muslim people. You are the leaders of this revolution and we lag behind. I sincerely admit that we do not have any document to produce even if we claim, but you dear ones demonstrated your commitment to Islam and the noble Qur'an without claim or without expectation of praise and reward. You and the martyrs of this nation and your relations and families of the martyrs enter the presence of God with a registered document, but we do not have such a document. Happiness belongs to you and your family and to the martyrs and families of the martyrs. By committing this crime, Saddam demonstrated how committed he is to the US and how sympathetic he is to the `Arabs; you demonstrated how criminal this man is, a criminal who wants to annihilate the people of both Iran and Iraq in order for his masters to satisfy their desires. You demonstrated that the likes of Saddam and Husayn, Jordan's Husayn, «1»" the brother" of Saddam, do not have such pluck. Those who want to rule with bayonet and send army to the battlefields with bayonet do not have the pluck to confront people who welcomes death with courage and who embraces martyrdom with their commitment to Islam. Saddam ruined himself with his own hand due to his idiocy. Now, it is the turn of Jordan's Husayn. They are disgraced in their own countries and among their own people. The volunteers whom Husayn has claimed- as said by some informed individuals- is not the case of any voluntary act. Yes, he himself is the sole volunteer, but he does not go to the warfronts; he is more cowardly than to enter the battlefields. He sits in his own seat and sends a group at bayonet point as so-called volunteers to be killed.

All the people of Iran today have proved to the world that they are a living nation, a nation committed to its own ideas and a people who eagerly embrace martyrdom in the cause of their belief. Everyday we witness persons who ask us to pray for them to get martyred. We pray that they emerge victorious. The problems of revolutions are numerous and the problems of our revolution should naturally be a hundred times more than those of other revolutions, because we were a nation having been supported oppressed in the course of the rule of a monarchical regime and particularly in the course of 50 years of the dirty rule of the Pahlavi dynasty. We had no friend or backer save God the Blessed and the Most Exalted. Our dear nation and all of us rose up, started the movement and pushed back all powers. If other movements and revolutions had stood against the power, it was because another power was behind them. We stood by ourselves; no country supported us; we did not trust any power or country other than God. This is a spiritual and divine power that has emerged in all and in you, dear youths, who are present here. With the document of the US crime, your own spiritual power is greater than that of Husayn and Saddam. They rely on material power and you resigned yourselves to the divine power. Our country and our dear people revolted and overthrew the corrupt monarchical regime on 22 Bahman (February 9) and established the progressive Islamic order, although no one and no country gave us militarily support and we ourselves did not have anything to math the Satanic power of Muhammad-Rida Shah, our people had only an unwavering faith in the school of Islam. The cries across the country were divine cries; they were the cries of truth echoed out of your throats. God has promised you victory. You should abide by your commitments. If you fulfill God's promise, God will fulfill His promise. If you help the religion of God, God will help you. God's help in these three years was quite manifest; any plot that was concocted against you and the Islamic Republic was thwarted by God the Most Exalted through your own or others' effort. From now onward, you should be happy and hopeful that you now stand before God holding this document, a talking and obvious document and your martyrs are in the presence of God the Most Exalted and with that document, God will help you and foil the plots. I should reiterate that when I see the likes of you the spiritually powerful ones, with this magnificent and grand spirit, I feel ashamed as to call myself a committed person. I beseech God, the most Blessed and Exalted to grant mercy to martyrs, happiness and health to you and dignity, happiness and health to your relatives and families.

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