In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Union of Islamic Associations of Students in Europe
May God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you!
Dear committed sisters and brothers! I acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter and pray to God Almighty to grant success, health and happiness to you, respectable young adults. Three years have elapsed since the outset of the Islamic Republic and the interment of the 2500- year-old tyrannical monarchy. This new-born phenomenon confronting the plots, sabotages, crimes and treasons of domestic elements and big satanic powers and mercenary governments in the region and beyond the region traversed the centennial path and with the hand of the absolute power of God removed all the obstacles in the way of the glorious revolution of the oppressed people who were victims of oppression and torture and have thwarted all the conspiracies. Despite the fact that most of the propaganda and the mass media horns are at the service of the opponents of Islam and the Islamic Republic, who spare no effort in crushing this fledgling regime, employ all sorts of machinations, slander, lie, opprobrium and spread rumor, this regime remained undeterred. Perhaps if any other regime faced these formidable enemies it would collapse and disintegrate much earlier. However, the Islamic Revolution miraculously continued with its path and enlightened many of the Muslims and oppressed people of the world. It is hoped that a profound public revolution throughout the world finds reality in face of anti-human world-devourers. The Islamic Revolution proceeds powerfully, with its integrity and strength rising and its opponents facing defeat.
After the grace of God Almighty, who is the refuge and support of the oppressed, particularly those who make sacrifices for the elimination of oppression and curtailing of the hands of international criminals and who offer their youths, another important point is the popular nature of this revolution, whose greatest feature is unwavering faith in the great God and in victory. You, dear ones, who play an important role in foiling the false propaganda and baseless slanders will continue with your path by trusting in God and relying on the favor and assistance of God almighty and since the goal is the establishment of justice and equity, do not be worried above forthcoming events.
My dear sisters and brothers! I feel your numerous problems in that environment, as you do ours. However, both of us know that our path is the path of the truth and we all have stood against falsehood and by patience and perseverance the truth will overcome falsehood. God has promised victory. I hope that the time of victory is near. We endeavor to widen the scope of propaganda and launch activity in this important matter despite all the difficulties. You and we, who seek one and the same purpose and idea, should exert all our efforts to achieve it. It is appropriate to call your attention to the point that I do not think the massive propaganda operations of our enemies can produce much effect because they are carried out with great differences and contradictions. Command belongs to God. As we and you saw, the great victory achieved last week by our brave and committed combatants in their impressive victory, whose magnitude they have not yet been able to assess and present to the people despite all their efforts, as well as the arms and ammunition taken as booty from the enemy and the quantity which has been detonated from them has been so great that much time is needed to count or collect them. The number of the dead bodies of those misled ones has not been determined yet, and the number of the captives and refugees is so great that their evacuation and transfer to the center has not been made possible. Over 14,000 of them have so far been sent to Tehran. They have inflicted such a crushing defeat on the enemy that is rarely equaled in the history of wars. Despite all these victories and the enemy being pushed back to the borders of Iraq, the colossal international propaganda horns have not mentioned them even once but spoke about the victory of Saddam's troops until when their disgrace was disclosed. After the reporters visited the scene, a few of the victories were communicated. In spite of this, the world mass media cunningly reflected some of its dimensions and said that Saddam's order for withdrawal move with the incentive of new combat formation. I think that this flagrant scandal which has befallen the mass media apparatus of the enemies of humanity in this war, particularly in a number of fronts such as Abadan and Boustan «2» and above all in Fath al-Mubin «3» is one of the victories for the people of Iran.
Another issue I should remind you of is that if you, brothers and sisters, study the words and deeds of devious splinter groups particularly the hypocrite splinter group, you will notice that from the time they were in prison with a number of prominent `ulama' such as Hadrat Hujjat al-Islam Muntaziri and other friends. When people emerged victorious thank to the struggles of the brave nation and in three years after the victory they have opposed the honorable people in victorious disguises. With a brief survey you can come to know not only their eclectic ideas but also their various hypocritical deeds and behavior and ideas contradicting the Islamic principles. If you have not become familiar with their ideas, be acquainted with them. We have closely watched and are observing their behavior closely and have understood that these claimants of Islam are opposed to Islamic beliefs and principles. Many a crime these claimants of struggle for people have committed, ranging from armed revolt and slaughter of innocent people in the street to arsons, explosions and assassination attempts against innocent children, women and men who have been victims of their inhuman crimes. They have continued with their crimes to this day. At of the outset of the victory of the revolution, they attempting to gain power. They attacked barracks and police stationed, robbed weapons depots, stole light and heavy arms, robbed banks, committed numerous other crime throughout the country and turned their houses which they had rented at exorbitant prices into centers of treason against the nation. However, thank God, with the armed forces and support of the nation, most of them have been tracked down. The worst crime they have committed is cheating and corrupting young and uninformed girls and boys and forcing them to carry out assassinations and arson. But God willed that most of them came to realize how they had been deceived by their own fellow members and they repented. Esteemed brothers and sisters! These warnings were given to prevent less informed youths and friends not to associate with these wolves in the garments of human beings and criminals under the guise of true Islam. They adamantly criticized imperialism hypocritically. Now it became clear that their true picture is so ugly. Now, it is clear that they have taken refuge in those countries and with their help have embarked on plotting against the Islamic Republic. By spreading rumors and mendacities, they want to entrap the innocent youth, executing the orders of their masters by taking advantage of the blood of the innocent and the deceived ones.
Inspired by your conscience and the pure religious law you, friends, are obliged to expose their crimes to whatever extent you can and not let the young adults who are the treasures of the nation fall in their trap. Know that if we are under the canopy of Islam and monotheism, we will be immune from the enemy's harm. Today, as before, all the afflictions of Muslims are caused by discord and failing to converge under the honorable banner of Islam. May you be victorious! May God be your friend!
May God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you!
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini
Esfand 29,1360 AHS
Jamaran, Tehran
Miraculous progress of the Islamic Revolution, victory in battlefields-describ the crimes committed by Munafiqin
Union of Islamic Associations of Students in Europe
جلد ۱۶ صحیفه امام خمینی (ره)، از صفحه ۱۱۲ تا صفحه ۱۱۵
«۱»- Nour, vol.۱۶, p.۱۱۳ inserted below the date ۱۵/۱/۱۳۶۱, but the date cited in the manuscript is ۲۹/۱۲/۱۳۶۰. The date ۱۵ Farvardin has been the time when Imam Khomeini's message was read at the annual meeting of the Union of Islamic Associations in Europe, not the date of writing the message.
«۲»- One of the cities of Khuzistan Province ۳۵ kilometers north-West of Susangird next to Hofel River, a branch of Karkheh River, with tropical climate. The cities was under occupation for a limited period of time in the course of the war imposed by the Iraqi Ba`athist regime against Iran and the residents of the city were subjected to unchivalours ground and air attacks of the aggressors.
«۳»- In the second year of the Iraqi Ba`athist regime imposed war against Iran an operation was launched in ۲۸/۱۲/۱۳۶۰ AHS called" Fath al-Mubin" for the liberation of the Western region of Karkheh River. In this operation, the enemy forces were demolished and the cities of Shoush, Andimeshk, Dezfoul and the oil wells of Abou Qarib were liberated and the occupation forces were pushed back to the point where the region remained outside the missile range of the enemy forces. The region was completely purged within a week of the start of the operations.
امام خمینی (ره)؛ 29 اسفند 1360