Speech [Importance of acquaintance with Islamic and patriotic duties]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

In advance, I appreciate the dear guests coming from abroad and the dear students who continue with their struggle on foreign front in the cause of God and ask God Almighty to grant them success in achieving Islamic goals. I appreciate the dear students who rose in foreign countries in favor of Islam, Islamic Republic and the dear country with those troubles and obstructions. They are also mujahids (strugglers in the cause of God) who serve Islam on the foreign front. I hope that their blessed names will be recorded in Islamic books and that they remain as treasures saving their country from deviation. I further thank the personnel of air force, the army aviation and dear pilots who are in harmony with your brothers, are competently serving Islam, and curtailed the hands of criminals from Islamic countries. I hope that you will not give them the opportunity to continue with their plunder in this country. You know the situation of the military and our country in time of the deposed Shah. They repeated the terms independence and civilization, but we had no independence in any things, and did not allow any trace of civilization to be experienced by people in the country. God Almighty obliged our nation and Muslims by awakening these forces and the popular forces. At the early days when the popular forces launched the revolution, when the Islamic forces and Islamic army transformed from the arrogant army into human-Islamic army they returned to the fold of the nation and thanks to their efforts our country emerged victorious. Today we are still midway through. You should not assume that big powers such as the US and the Soviet Union will leave us alone. They still have their covetous eyes on us. They are sitting abroad and their agents in and out of the country are busy, casting their covetous eyes on the country and the military. However, the development that took place in this country thanks to the divine favors saved our youths and the armed forces. I hope that this development will remain as it is. As long as this situation exists and present situation persists, no harm will come to our country.

It is important that you and we be familiar with our Islamic and patriotic duties. We should not think that problems are over, Iran has been completely liberated and those waiting in ambush will become calm. Every day we should enhance our vigilance, unity and coordination. You should not regard yourselves separate from other Islamic armed forces. They should not also consider themselves separate from you. All of you are one and the same force under different titles. You are Islamic-divinely forces. The titles are different but meaning is the one and the same. As long as there is unity in meaning, unity among the military and the armed forces, and unity among Sepah-e Pasdaran and Basij and people, this country will be immune from any evil. God forbid the day comes when the deviants deceive you and create rift among you. There may, God forbid, come a day when people deviated from Islam try to sow discord between you and the dear pasdars. If discord creeps into your ranks and if your unity is destroyed, certainly they will fulfill their plan, and will bring you under their own command as in the case of the former regime when army was under their command. They will launch a purge that none of your, who are serving Islam will remain. You and we should be vigilant. The government and people should be alert. The nation should not neglect this fact that there are enemies on all sides from the US to the Soviet Union waiting in ambush to devour our country. We should not doubt this concept. We should trust God Almighty and our national power. Your unity, support of people and backing from all strata will safeguard you against any harm.

Thank God you delivered Saddam the slap promised just following his attacking Iran, a now he is a befuddled creature, has lost everything he once had, and foreign aids, regional aids and aids by the superpowers cannot save him. Today Saddam is in utmost disappear, asking everyone in the hope of an improvement. He even clings to devious individuals and groups begging them to suggest improvement- albeit- American ones. However, they don't know that development in Iran, the spirit in Iran and the force in Islam do not allow making peace with a creature, which has not shown mercy to the old and young his country and our country. The term improvement is a concept that cannot be realized between Muslims and a tribe that did not believe in Islam from the beginning, with its founder being the same Aflaque who believed in no Divine religion. It is meaningless for the Islamic government of Iran to sit at the negotiation table with a government that has no faith in Islam and human ethics. Iran continues to slap Saddam in the face and on the back, in the same way it did to this miserable creature before, so that what they have to acquiesce to under Iran's military pressure and the nation's pressure will materialize. If the people of Iran wanted to make American-sponsored peace, they would not break with the US in the first place, would not cut relations, would not expel American spies, and would not curtail its hand from Iran. If today Iran stretches its hands towards American-sponsored peace, Saddam and the likes of Saddam will be removed, but the American advisors will enter the scene. We cannot accept a peace proposed by America and Saddam cannot accept what we demand. The person who at first wished to be the Qadesiyeh commander stipulated that he was attacking a Magi country. He called Iran a Magi country and his attack that of Qadesiyeh commander. He does not believe in Islam and Islamic ethics. Today he talks frequently about Islam on the radio and in his speeches. Now that he has become desperate, he pretends to be Muslim. If this wicked person is given the opportunity the day he finds the chance to rearm his forces he will attack your country more ferociously than the former one. Now that thank God power is in the hands of the army, the Sepah, the Basij and the tribal people, this power should be preserved. Preserve this unity and proceed, as God is with you. I hope that with your concerted efforts, all these plots will be foiled and Iran wil preserve its independence and freedom. Those who want us to make peace with Saddam and stop the war, they want American-sponsored peace. Some of them are Americanized from head to toe, were the agents of the former Shah, have now converted to Islam, and are wailing and shedding crocodile tear for their country and for preservation of the blood of their fellow countrymen.

God willing, you and other armed forces should continue with your task strongly and by relying on God almighty. Protect your country from the hands of corrupt powers wanting to find their way back into Iran. I hope that they cannot fulfill and realize such a distant dream. Obviously, they have fixed their covetous eyes on Iran; their greed has not been served. They also propose peace, but the peace they want is an American peace, while we want Islamic peace. We want the one who has aggressed against Muslims and those who have shed the blood of Muslims in our and heir land and martyred the `ulama' of Islam in heir own lands, we want to take revenge from him according the rules of Islam. We want to retaliate. We want to cut his hand. We want this detested party- the `Aflaqi party- to be destroyed and Iraq be controlled by the Iraqi people themselves, not by others and the likes of Saddam who trampled upon all the prestige of Iraq, military credit of Iraq and national prestige of Iraq, wasting away all reserves of the Iraqi people due to his idiocy, reducing the country to destitution. The government agents take the gold and jewelry of women by force. They show a group of themselves standing in line to offer their savings. He is taking the gold from his people by force and sells in Kuwait and elsewhere to improve his condition or to fill the pocket of himself or others. Such a creature should no longer remain in the world and should not exercise control over an Islamic country. Islam does not permit such a compromise between us and him or between a Muslim and a transgressing infidel. We should tell the regional countries that Islam does not let us occupy even an inch of their land. We are defending you, your country, your principles, your `ulama', religious people and your nation. After victory is ensured, your country will be yours and all regional countries belong to their owners. The Islamic country of Iran has no mai-intention against an inch of other countries land. However, Iran does not let those who look covetously at Iran's land and those who harried our country continue living. I beseech God Almighty to grant success to you youths and to the dear youths who are serving Islam outside of the country. You are mujahids who are sincerely serving Iran; you are mujahids who are serving your country; God is with you and you are victorious, God willing.

May God's peace and blessings be upon you!