In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Your Excellency Shaykh Za'id bin Sultan Al-e Nahyan, Head of Government of the United `Arab Emirates,
Thank you for the telegraph message of Your Excellency felicitating the occasion of the New Lunar Hijri Year. Unfortunately, the arrival of this new lunar year concurs with the many sorrows afflicting the Muslims throughout the world; one of them is the tragedy of Lebanon, the massacre and genocide of thousands of Muslims, the dishonoring of hundreds of Muslim women and girls and the burying alive of infants. More sorrowful is the indifference of the leaders of many of the Muslim countries and their disregard for this sorrowful tragedy. It is very unfortunate that instead of confronting the major enemy of Islam and cutting off ties with the global imperialist America, which is the main mastermind and perpetrator of all these crimes. With their material and military assistances to the bloodthirsty Saddam and the faithless Ba`ath party of Iraq, they bring about the intensification of the imposed war of Saddam against Islamic Iran and as a result prevent the punishment and bringing the aggressor to justice of and compensation of war reparations and damages.
I pray to the Almighty God to rescue all the indifferent and self-defeated leaders of Islam from this negligence and self-defeat and to bless them with victory over the enemies of Islam. May God's peace be upon you.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini
Dhoul-Hijjah al-Haram 26,1402 AH