Speech [Conspiracy to unveil women during the reign of Rida Khan]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

I must thank the respected women of Qum and the respected audience that have come here today and I am grateful to them. Perhaps I am better aware of the problems that occurred in this country during the reign of the father and son in this country. There are few who witnessed these issues to the extent that I did perhaps because they did not live as long.

Most of you women do not remember those days and perhaps there are very few among you that remembers that unfortunate period. In that period, on the pretext that they wanted to activate half the population of Iran, that criminal tyrant «1» committed a heinous crime, which was to unveil women; and instead of activating half the population of Iran, he deactivated largely that other half also which consisted of the men. These dolls that they crafted and placed in all the offices and in all the streets so that those that were in the offices caused the rest who were employed in the offices to refrain from work while those that were left on the streets corrupted our youth and caused them to become inactive. In their own words, they wanted to import the Eastern civilization into Iran and with the situation that they created, they even destroyed the great Islamic civilization. Thank God, in the holy city of Qum, the women and women resisted in such a way that they gave them a punch to their mouths and in Tehran and the rest of the cities, the majority of the women were opposed to it and they hit back. The same number of dolls that they themselves had arranged for was enough to corrupt Iran; was enough to corrupt our youth whether boys or girls. The Blessed and Almighty God did a favor to our nation and rescued it and the women from the plots that they had hatched. What positive work did the women who came out and entered the society during the reign of the Father and Son do? Compare now with that time.

Now Iran has almost become a school and in every part of Iran, one sees the women engaging in Islamic, religious and even political activities while safeguarding their chastity, while safeguarding their honor. Throughout the period when they were abandoned among the people, they only caused immorality. While in this short period, these ladies engaged in so many activities, a sample of which you are witnessing in Qum- and there are many such specimens in other cities too. Of course, I must thank the residents of Qum and the illustrious ladies of Qum that at such a time when we are plagued with superpowers and corrupt powers and Iran is being attacked from every direction, behind the frontlines, you ladies are engaging in the same activities as the combatants in the frontlines. In the same way that they are engaged in activity, you too are engaged in activity. One way is self-building and building our youth and the young women while one path is the path of providing support to those that are serving on the warfronts. This is an issue that deserves many thanks and is extremely valuable and is more worthy in the sight of Almighty God. Every task that a person is engaged in especially Islamic and humanitarian is worthy. Of course, a group out of jealousy or competitiveness or because they are deviant and so forth oppose such tasks. You must not expect all the people and the women that are working in this institute and are the managers of this institute and those that are employed in this institute and those that are studying in this institute to agree with you. There are individuals among them that cannot see these Islamic issues. Some of them regard Islamic matters as issues that because they are opposed to the civilization of the East and the civilization of the West, for this reason they are reactionary. They regard progress to be either affiliated to the West and be Westernized or to the East and be Orientals. Today that Iran has shunned both these groups and is inclined neither towards the East nor towards the West and wants to lead a humanitarian life, and wants to start a life that is worthy and honorable, they are causing disruptions. However, those that are causing disruptions if they are Muslims- this is a great service that these ladies and these women are doing and is a worthy service in the presence of God- it is among the cardinal sins to cause disruptions in these matters. If they are not devoted to Islam and want to engage in prostitution, then they should know that the season for prostitution is over. The women of Iran shall no longer allow you to engage in what you were doing in the past and pursue such things. I must thank all of you. Of course, thank God, you are busy with religious activities and there is also political opinions among you and among the women of Iran, there is both religious opinions and political opinions. Those barriers that were restraining you from political and religious activities have been eliminated. I am optimistic that you shall reach a level where each of you is able to train a number of people. God willing, Iran becomes an Iran that is alive, an Iran that is eternal, an Iran that is resistant to the East and the West and vis-a-vis those that are in confrontation with us.

However, let me speak a word about the issues that have cropped up in these times. One of the issues is the conference of the so-called non-aligned leaders. The conference that the founders of the movement started was composed of individuals that were very devoted to Islam and to their own countries and were independent of the big powers. But today they are composed of various types; many of them are non-aligned while some of them are those that if they were to be non-aligned, then we must not be having aligned. If the Jordanian Husayn «2» and Hasan «3» and Husni Mubarak «4» and their likes are non-aligned, then all are non-aligned; thus, we must not say one group is aligned and one group is non-aligned. Of the tasks that this non-aligned conference must perform and which is of utmost importance, and it must undertake it even later on, is that it separate the aligned from the non-aligned. They should not allow every person who claims to be non-aligned in their ranks. It is possible that there are individuals that are more dependent and are slaves of the East and the West than the existing aligned ones and if they enter this group, penetrate, and gain influence among them, they shall deviate from the path and cause others to deviate.

These non-aligned countries must first separate these countries that want to be independent, these countries that want to make themselves non-aligned. They must first clean their assembly, their conference, their movement of those elements that in the name of non-alignment infiltrated them and want to serve either America- the majority are such- or the Soviet Union that also has a large following. If they join your ranks, they will not allow you to remain non-aligned; they will not permit you to work for the weaker countries; they will not permit you to end your dependence from those countries. They are ahead of you in sloganeering. You see in the conference that was held a few days ago and has concluded, one of those that supported it was America, an America that wants to dominate the whole world! If it had been apprehensive of this conference lest the conference issue a statement against it, it would have never praised it, but they praised it. This is because they are confident of the individuals that have entered this conference like Husayn of Jordan and Husni Mubarak and their likes and Saddam. They have gained entry in the name of being non-aligned; and these non-aligned want that you, too, should become non-aligned like them. If you truly want to remain a non-aligned group, leaders of the non-aligned movement and practice your policy of non-alignment, then the topmost priority is to cleanse it. If there is a single corrupt person among you, he shall not permit you to do your job. You must first banish the likes of these, Saddam, Husayn, Husni and Hasan from your regular members so that you can organize a proper conference and be a non-aligned movement. Otherwise, once every few years you gather with all that much trouble, expenses and problems, you do not do anything beyond proposing a single issue and discussing it and then not taking action. This is because those that have infiltrated your ranks are not allowing the performance of tasks.

The topmost priority should be to push them aside and take the seat yourself. In the same way that Iran does not extend its hands towards anyone in these past few years and has remained independent and both its women and men are resisting vis-a-vis America, the Soviet Union and vis-a-vis any transgressor. They are truly non-aligned; they neither have cultural dependence nor military dependence and nor any other dependence. However, if there is a place that says they do not have military dependence but have cultural dependence, in that case the cultural dependence if worse than military dependence, it is dependence not alignment. Those that say aligned and non-aligned are dependent and are the chained slaves of some of them. If you do not want to be dependant, you must change from the grassroots; you must not align from the military aspect alone. You must be non-aligned and non-dependent in industry, culture and in all matters that are required by a country. If it becomes thus, then you are non-aligned and can stand on your own feet. If these individuals enter your ranks then they will not allow you to remain non-aligned and they will make you dependent and make it worse than alignment for you because alignment is mutual whereby one party makes a commitment for the other party and the other party makes a commitment for that one. However, they want to make you dependant and unquestionably and in the same manner that they themselves are dependant and are working for them whereby they place all the wealth of their own countries with all those poor people that are living throughout their respective into the pockets of the superpowers. When they enter in your midst, they will do the same thing with you. I hope that the truly non-aligned reflect on this and throw out these corrupt leftover persons so that they are able to do something for their own countries and for their oppressed nations.

May God grant all of you with health and prosperity. May he make all of we and you to become active in the path of serving the oppressed; in the path of serving the poor; in the path of imparting literacy; in the path of education; in the path of training and God willing you all be in the trust of God.

May God's peace and mercy be upon you.