In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Verily, to God we belong and to Him shall we return
The huge criminal bomb blast with deafening sound took place yesterday night in the southern part off the city of Tehran among an innocent and deprived class of society. You will watch and hear about its massive extent damages through mass media. Hundreds of innocent and oppressed persons were martyred and injured. The newly-born babies became sacrificial victim in the laps of their mothers. It brought mourns and dishonor to gracious humanity and exposed further the ugliest face of hypocritical and deviant Americans. They are taking revenge of their shameful defeat from the innocent residents of the downtown area, who are devoted to Islam and they blame them for their defeat. The deprived and oppressed classes, residing in downtown districts and committed to human and Islamic values, have always taken stand throughout the course of history with determination against the superpowers, their supporters and affiliates. These people have smashed the superpowers by clenched fists and consistent presence in the arena of Islam has brought despair to their greedy followers. Currently, our soldiers, army, the Basij, and the rest of the armed forces belong to same class. Our cherished nation witnesses that beaten enemies of Islam and the nations being defeated by the brave and sacred warriors of Iran, kill a group of innocent people with intention to take revenge of their frustrations. They wrongly assume that they can thereby weaken and bring down the morale of the courageous fighters. They measure the nation of Islam on the scale of their low-level Western standards and they have not yet acknowledged the power of Islam and faith. They are unable to grasp the realities and are ignorant of the Divine motivations." They are of the deaf, dumb and blind who perceive not." «1» They aims at mistaken incentive of diverting the minds of the Iranians and other worldwide innocent nations, from the shameful defeat of America in the war imposed by Saddam and the deportation of the Shah from Iran toward such great catastrophe. They want to give an excuse to the foreign mass media to cover up the shameful defeat of America and its puppet, Saddam, or perhaps to lessen the magnitude of the victory of the forces of Islam. They are unaware that the Iranian revolutionary nation regards the defense of Islam and the amputation of the region from hired hand of the great Satan as its topmost priority. Although every human being, whose Divine nature has not been altered, aggrieved and affected by this great offense and the damages caused injuries of our brothers, martyrdom of a group of innocent children and adults yet the glorious victory achieved by fighters of Islam can never been forgotten. The awakened Iranian nation is aware of the criminal offenses and satanic tricks being played by the terrorists and they are well acquainted with doer of these crimes. They refuse and condemn it just like the denial and condemnation of brutal crimes organized by Israel in Beirut. I congratulate Islam and the Walliyullah al- A`zam- may our souls be sacrificed for him- and the noble nation of Iran for this great victory achieved by the braves of Islamic armed forces yet I express my condolences to all especially to the family members, the mothers and fathers of the innocent victims of this painful catastrophe. His Excellency the Prime Minister «2» is responsible for establishing a committee, which will attend the families of the martyrs and discover the scale of damages. It will also help the affecters of catastrophe and compensate damages. Salutations to the innocent martyrs and the affecters and may God bless his mercies upon the martyrs. I pray to the Exalted God to grant patience to the family members of the victims and bless with health and heal the injured and the affected persons.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini
Jamaran, Tehran
Planting a bomb in the Nasirkhosrow street of Tehran and the resultant killing and injuring of hundreds of passers-by persons
specifying the crimes of the munafiqin terrorist outfit
Nation of Iran
جلد ۱۷ صحیفه امام خمینی (ره)، از صفحه ۱۵ تا صفحه ۱۶
«۱»- Part of verse ۱۷۱ of the Sourah al-Baqarah.
«۲»- Mr. Mir Husayn Musawi.
امام خمینی (ره)؛ 10 مهر 1361