Speech [Safeguarding human values and prevention of corruption; achievement of the Revolution and the Sacred Defense]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Today, you have made me happy. Of course, I had the information that the brains that were not allowed to develop at all in the former regime are developing but I did not have the detailed information in this sector and now I am extremely pleased. I must thank these beloved youth for having brought and are bringing honor for their homeland and God willing for Islam. Every step that we move forward, we gain more information of what treacheries have been committed against this country; what crimes America and its likes have done to us; except that they did it with the hands of these same traitors that were within. The biggest crime that they committed was this same fact that they did not allow our youth to develop. If from the beginning when the army was formed, it was an Islamic army, was under the supervision of Islam, and was devoted to Islam, our condition now would have been different; but they did not allow. Nevertheless, the Blessed and Almighty God spread the favor of His blessing over this nation so that we reached midway and forestalled these issues. Today, everything of our country is Islamic and, of course, we are still midway and it shall increase.

I hope that the officials are aware that with their motivation and attention, the Blessed and Almighty God will reward them. That this is worship; that what you are doing is one of the biggest forms of worship; and that you are doing it for the cause of God so that the Blessed and Almighty God will favor you both here and in the hereafter. The job, which you are doing and God willing, you will complete later, this deed shall be recorded in your Book of Deeds and it shall be recorded in this world and everywhere.

At the same time that in the war we have lost a large number of our youth, many beloved personalities, so many criminal acts have taken place, and in fairness, the recent crime in Dezfoul was one of the biggest crimes that they committed. At the same time that so many crimes have been committed against us; nevertheless, what our country gained is far more valuable and precious than the harm that was inflicted upon us. But the damage of loss of individuals, which, of course, we cannot repair; but God willing, later other individuals shall take over that can make up for them better. Damages such as destructions and such things can be recompensed; they are not important things, they can be reconstructed; but we must see that what we gain from them in return. We must think of this.

Those that are pessimistic sit there and repeatedly emphasize the weak points; they point their finger at the number of lives lost; how many hospital beds have been occupied; how many have been disabled. We all know of these that how many of us have been killed; how many disabled we have; how many poor people we have; but we do not observe the other side that what we have gained in return. Well, they say that we fought and have disabled people; we did not start the war; others started it.

If the men expect that, why we quarreled with America so that these wars took place and these things happen; we know that challenging America and all the powers has these repercussions. However, this is a question that we, that these men must ask the Prophet himself that why he challenged the" Abousufiyan" s so that they killed his uncle «1»? So, they killed such a great personality? Well, you should have also sat in the security of your home and surrendered so that they would not have been killed! This blame also can be laid on the Commander of the Faithful. If the men lay the blame on us then it is also justified to blame him; well why did you oppose Mu`awiyah? Well, everybody said that he should allow Mu`awiyah to stay on his job as ruler of Syria and he should be pardoned whereas he said that he would not allow a tyrant to stay in his position even for an hour! Well, this resulted in the killing of great personalities such as" `Ammar" «2» and several thousand people! If this logic is correct, then it is also valid for the Doyen of the Martyrs- may God's peace is upon him. In the same way that they would object to him at that time that well, he was living comfortably in Medina so why did he have to depart with a small number of associates to challenge a tyrannical rule! Well if all the Prophets throughout history had made a mistake according to the logic of these persons, then all must compromise with bullies and we, too, shall confess that the Prophets were mistaken and we, too, had made a mistake like the Prophets! If this is not the issue, the issue is a humanitarian issue; it is of human values; the issue is one of prevention of these crimes that the bullies are perpetrating against mankind; against human beings; it is the disintegration of human beings; the question is one of extermination of outstanding individuals. If this is the question, then we are victorious. This is because this same subject that you spoke about concerning the activities that our beloved individuals have undertaken. Concerning this same subject, if these events had not taken place, we all were sitting in our homes, and America would also rule over this country, these things would not have occurred until eternity. All of us had to stand and pay respects to the Americans and flatter them so that they would give us bread; so that they would give us weapons; so that they would give us ammunitions. That, too, they would not give them to us but stock them here so that in case there was a war, it would be for their own use; we were not given anything at all. They took away all our resources and established a base here for themselves. However, the Blessed and Almighty God had mercy on us and those bases that they had made for themselves fell into our hands. All of these are war booties that God has given to us except that they surrendered them to us with their own hands.

In any case, we must think and place these two subjects on a balance; the subject of what we have lost and the subject of what we have gained. On the subject of what we have lost, we accept that we have lost many eminent personalities; many active personalities and many beloved youth and have also lost many to disability- in others words, many of our personalities were maimed and many women were widowed- we all know about these things. There was a lot of destruction in this country; all these are present. However, why do we not think about what we have gained? We must reflect that what we have gained is this that we have been delivered from a regime that was destroying Islam; that had corrupted our youth to become immoral; that had carried our nation to a stage where they did not know anything except to engage in immoral activities and become consumers of foreign goods. This was by the grace of God that He caused the whole nation together to feel that they must put a stop to it and rescued it from the swamp of decadence. What we have gained is that we have managed to revive Islam here. Previously, there was Islam only in name but not in principle; meaning that in principle it was a quarrel with Islam; they wanted to relieve Islam; to destroy all these things except gradually. They could not say right from the beginning that we do not but it; they would say that they accepted it but only the fundamentals. They would keep on knocking down one by one. They had destroyed the commandments of Islam. All their work was in this way. Praise is due to God, the people are witnessing Islam in this country and are seeing that there is no mention of all those immoralities, which existed in the streets and the nightclubs and such things.

For this reason, they rescued these youth who were all on the verge of destruction. Today, all have become active. Now, they know that they must resist America; they must resist bullying; they must have independence themselves. This by itself would be sufficient achievement. However, thank God, many achievements have been made including these same that you have mentioned. The fact that these men are making things that one could not imagine they could make or they would not think of these subjects; the men themselves are undertaking them and we hope that God willing, later on also they would do more and perform higher. May God grants all of you and all of us the success in rescuing this nation that was until now under the domination of foreigners and under the subjugation and tyranny of the immoral regime and to free the people so that they get on with their own job. God willing, all the problems shall be resolved and you should be hopeful to the God's grace. All the difficulties will be finished. You are honored in the presence of the Blessed and Almighty God and in the presence of the world. May God protect all of you.

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