Speech [Importance of cohesion of the Air Force with Islam; Divine favors in the victories of the nation of Iran]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

I congratulate you sirs, all the armed forces, and the great Islamic nation for these powerful victories of Islam in this recent Ten-Day Dawn celebrations. It was the sacred struggle of you brethren of the Air Force that was the first force to link up with Islam; and was the first force that turned to Islam and the Qur'an and that turned its back on the evil" Taghout". This devotion and the self-sacrifice that was extremely worthwhile at that time shall God willing never be erased from the memory of the nation and from the memory of the oppressed. At the Court of the Blessed and Almighty God, you are held high and are valued for smashing this barrier at a difficult time; and following you, the rest of the armed forces also joined with the nation so that thank God, this victory was achieved and the evil" Taghout" was transformed into" the Compassionate". You who at that time were serving the evil" Taghout" are from that day onwards in the service of Islam and in the service of the Blessed and Almighty God.

The victory that was attained for you and the armed forces from the beginning of the Revolution until now cannot be regarded as an ordinary feat. You know what a power we were confronted with at the start of the Revolution, a power that was armed in the course of long years. Although they had not armed it for Iran but had armed it to confront the enemies of America and you know that, all the powers were backing it and were aiding it. Nevertheless, this nation that had nothing in those days and was empty-handed, managed to overcome these powers. Of those victories was the link-up of you brothers with the nation. In those days, the nation would chant the slogan of brotherhood and you accepted and today you are engaged in a sacred struggle alongside your brothers. We must all know that the nation and all the military strata and the armed forces did this in order to implement the commandments of God and in order to get rid of Satan and the evil" Taghout" regime and to replace them with the cry of" Allahu Akbar". The Islamic Republic regime has helped us and you at all stages and has not withdrawn its favors from you. I hope that you and all of the entire nation and us remain faithful to their covenant with the Blessed and Almighty God. If you assist God, the Blessed and Almighty God has also promised to assist you «1» - and He has also granted assistance until now.

You should be aware that at every stage that the nation of Iran, the army of Iran, the Guards Corps of Iran and the rest of the armed forces were faced with the faithless while at the same time that they were not as well equipped as them, and they were begging from everyone and were being assisted from all sides and Iran was only allied with the Blessed and Almighty God and was not allied with anywhere else, it was this Blessed and Almighty God that granted you and granted your nation these victories. Otherwise, a force that was consolidated in prefabricated bunkers; that was sitting inside very massive bunkers and were equipped with every kind of ammunitions and weaponry, is forced out of the bunkers and they leave their bunkers and so many prisoners of war are taken from them which you know. We must not regard this as an ordinary achievement and take credit for it. This is a supernatural feat. This achievement is of the blessings that God has favored you with and favors you. For us, all of these blessings of the Blessed and Almighty God are of the highest order. We are all indebted to His blessings and we must always bear this in mind.

For being thankful for this blessing, the Blessed and Almighty God shall increase his blessings. He has promised that if you are thankful, He shall increase it. He shall increase His blessings. Today, you are seeing that all the armed forces, the armed forces and the nation together with the clergy, the clergy with all unite opposite the faithless and this is the secret of your victory. One such parliament that we have now in which the clergy are blended with you whereas in former times if a clergyman was present there he was attached to the royal court. However, today there are clergymen there that are of this same people, are the servants of this people, are from the theological schools, and are not attached to anywhere. Today, this combination that is in Iran where the army is blended with the Guards Corps; the army with the volunteer Basij mobilization; the Basij with all; the tribes with you and with all is not present elsewhere. Today, the nation is supportive; the clergy in support and all are united- it is a blessing, which, the Blessed and Almighty God have bestowed on Iran. Do not be under the impression that this blessing exists in other places; the reason is that Iran has arisen for the sake of Islam. From the start it cried out that it wanted Islam and in order to sustain the honor of Islam, the Blessed and Almighty God assisted you in this task that you did which was worthy in His sight. If other nations also follow this same plan, arise for the sake of Islam, and for the cause of God, the Blessed and Almighty God will do for them what he did for you. What is important is that we understand our duty. What is important is that man knows what he must do. If man discovers his path, the Blessed and Almighty God shall show him the pathways to guidance and the pathways to victory. You think that this fear that God instilled in their hearts is because of our guns! It is because of our power! This is a fear, which the Blessed and Almighty God instilled in the hearts of the enemies at the dawn of Islam, and with the very fear He caused the Prophet of Islam to triumph otherwise they, too, were ill equipped in the face of their enemies. The fact when the cry of" Allahu Akbar" is chanted, the armies suddenly take to their heels and leave their bunkers empty as it occurred just recently when I was told that when they attacked, as soon as the cry of" Allahu Akbar" was chanted, they fled. The same thing occurred in Khorramshahr, the same also in other places. Therefore, we must safeguard this blessing of God and the compassion that the Blessed and Almighty God have bestowed to us; we should strive so that this blessing perpetuates. To strive is to become divine initially; to serve in the cause of God; to be obedient to God and to regard ourselves to be from Him and our return to him. Following this objective, the second theme, which is unity and cohesion, shall be attained. This is because disunity is of Satan while unity of expression and cohesion is from the Compassionate. When you attain divinity; attain compassion and become devoted to God, pursuant to that one does not attain disunity; one does not attain discord. Thank God, today there is a great cohesion among all the armed forces and I hope that all take care to safeguard this cohesion.

You must never pay attention to these propaganda loudspeakers that are blaring in the world against you; that are blaring against all. Sometimes they instigate the army saying," In Iran, the army has no role to play in the Islamic Republic anymore"; and sometimes they instigate from this angle. It is their job to do this after they taste a defeat. For a time they show absolutely no reaction; then for a time they say this one said such and that one said such and such a thing. Now also they say that the government of Iran claims what it has accomplished and Saddam says that he has driven them out of Iraq, killed all of them or caused them to retreat and captured their equipment- this is the basis of their talk.

The governments of the region must understand the subject that if they become familiar with Islam and extend the hand of goodwill towards Iran, Iran can save them from the evil of all the powers. They shall no longer have to fear what they should do and what America shall do. Well, we acted upon that which you fear. We removed a prominent servant «2» of America, we closed down the Embassy of America that was an embassy only in name and which actually was an espionage den and occupied it and we threw out the American spies. We threw out the American advisers and America was not able to do anything although it wanted to do. Although Iran has a limited population of a maximum of forty million people and limited arms and ammunitions, yet it resisted opposite all the powers, it is not afraid of any power. This is because it relies on a single power that is God. When you rely on Him and connect to Him, you have no need to connect to others. When a population of forty million can resist opposite America, opposite the Soviet Union, opposite France and opposite all of them, can any one oppose it! These Muslims that are a billion-strong population but are disunited and dispersed and each of them plays a different tune; their governments are opposed to their nations; the nations in like manner with the governments and each government with the other government even when they claim to be friends, they are lying. Saddam who until now claimed to be independent of America; to be an enemy of Israel; to be an enemy of Egypt and to be an `Arab nationalist who only understood `Arabism and claimed to have nothing to do at all with America and France and others and had no regard for them, now the matter has become obvious. Now it has become clear that this man was an American as well as an Israeli; and who in their absence entered into secret deals with the Soviet Union and with France. In fact, the thing that he did not have in mind was `Arab nationalism. With Egypt too, it is because America is with Egypt that he has relations with it otherwise, he is only concerned with flexing his muscle in all of the regions. From the beginning too, when he launched the attack, they played with him although his own so-called ego and so-called ambition as well as his evil desire was also at work. America also deceived him into believing that Iran no longer had any capability since its army had dissolved and the Guards Corps were nothing to be afraid of and the other people also had nothing to do with these things so all he had to do was to go and occupy Iran and the oil was his. After he had accomplished this, the whole region would be his and he could take over the region. They fooled him with such words. This wretched soul was fooled and attacked Iran and none of them was familiar with Iran meaning they thought that Iran was like the Iran of former times. They did know Iran and they did not know that when a nation becomes Islamic and cries out for Islam all at once, this is something other than what they understand. They have absolutely no idea of the power of Islam. They do not understand, no they do not; some of these that are from our own people and that fled and engaged in sowing discord also did not know what Iran was about. They, too, thought that if they raised their voice, the matter would be over. For instance, a bunch of Communists in Amol would say that if they took into the streets, all the people would support them. Some such foolish assumptions resulted in Saddam's falling into a trap that was worse than a hundred of his own traps. I hope that the Blessed and Almighty God will perpetuate His blessings and that we serve Him more than ever before and that we unite and become a single hand and that God grants health to all of you. Your valuable service shall not be erased from our mind; you were the foremost persons that linked up with us, you are of those that have raced ahead, and is God willing, of the closest to God.

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