[In His Most Exalted Name
To Great Leader of Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini- may his benign existence endure for the people,
With the best salutations, This is to call your kind attention to the fact that one of the enormously significant achievements of the Cultural Revolution is a Professors' Training University, which has been established in order to train professors, thus playing a key role in cultural independence. It has so far trained 300 professors in various fields; it is presently training more than one-thousand and one-hundred trainers. The applicants are selected with special conditions; they undergo a special religious-scientific training in systematic manner and ideal environment. By the grace of God, most of them have so far served as catalysts of revolutionary transformation wherever they have gone.
Meanwhile, in view of the necessity of cultural independence, increase in population and consequently rise in the number of trainers inside the country; the need to pay the ever multiplied expenses abroad and not to mention enduring abjectness, humiliation and educational deviation; the existence of strong scientific rivalry in the world to such an extent that in some countries relative to the population they have 10 times more students than we have; the existence of law approved by the Islamic Consultative Assembly concerning the restriction of dispatching students abroad, except in needed cases; extreme lack of professors in the country which is a product of the condition prior to the Revolution and the departure of the taghouti (the followers of evil) professors after the Revolution; and the many times increase of students inside the country, the expansion of universities and at the top of which is the Professors' Training University is an inevitable affair and acknowledged by all officials of the three branches of government such that the President «1» has accepted the chairmanship of the board of trustees of the university.
Yet, in view of the general condition of the country and lack of budget and foreign currency, after eight years of the birth of the university we have not been able to provide the necessary facilities satisfactorily. We suffer from shortage in learning environment, laboratory, dormitory, housing for professors, library, transportation, worker, etc. Due to the need for expanding the university's activity, we have recently met with serious problems, which might disrupt efforts to widen the scope of activity of the university, thus harming the ideal education in universities as a whole.
In this connection, Board of Trustees of the university at a meeting proposed to request Your Eminence to agree with allocation of budget of the Cultural Section of the Disabled Veterans of the Islamic Revolution Foundation to this university. The Board of Trustees believes that training professors for the universities by this allocation would be the most beneficial cultural activity in the country. The decision rests with you. With prayer for longevity of Your Eminence!
Board of Trustees
Professors' Training University
In His Most Exalted Name
I approve of the view of the Board of Trustees of the Professors' Training University regarding the financial need and the possible fulfillment of this need through the Mustad`afan Foundation.
Sayyid `Ali Khamene'i]
In His Most Exalted Name
I have objection. God willing, Mr. Prime Minister will take the necessary action.
Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini
Farvardin 11,1368 AHS