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Speech at Behesht-e Zahra in Tehran

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Speech at Behesht-e Zahra, was Imam Khomeini's speech at Behesht-e Zahra in Tehran, on the first day of his return to the homeland on Bahman 12, 1357 SH.

Behesht-e Zahra and its Importance

The plan to create the Behesht-e Zahra (a) Organization was formed in Tir 1334 SH based on a resolution of the Tehran City Council; however, the implementation of this plan remained suspended for years. After allocating a piece of land for this purpose in late 1345 SH, electing a board of directors, and preparing the articles of association,[1] finally, the large cemetery of Behesht-e Zahra (a) was established in 1349 SH, on a land of four hundred hectares located on the Tehran-Qom highway route.[2] The massive presence of people and the gathering of the regime's opponents in 1357 SH at Behesht-e Zahra (a), and the burial of the revolution's martyrs in it, turned this cemetery into a symbol of the nation's rebellion and protest against the monarchical regime.[3] This very status caused Imam Khomeini to choose Behesht-e Zahra (a) as his first destination after entering Iran, in order to pay respect to all the martyrs of the Islamic Revolution, and despite the emphasis of those close to him on the difficulty of the matter, he delivered his first speech there after fourteen years.[4]

Side Programs

The speech platform was determined in the Martyrs' Section 17. The special program for Behesht-e Zahra (a) began with an anthem at nine o'clock in the morning. The program officials, who were constantly in contact with the airport via two-way radios, informed the people of the news.[5] The audio coverage of Behesht-e Zahra (a) also became possible with the efforts of a number of revolutionary employees of the National Radio and Television Organization.[6] Before Imam Khomeini's speech, the child of the martyr Ṣādiq Amānī read an article.[7] A group of students also performed the anthem "Arise, O Martyrs of the Path of God".[8]

The Imam's Speech and its Content

Then, in one of the most populated gatherings in history, Imam Khomeini expressed the most principled pillars of the rational legitimacy of a political system in a simple and logical language, and in general, called any imposed government contrary to rational rules and Human Rights.[9]

The Axes of the Speech

The most important axes of this speech were as follows:

  1. The contradiction of the imposed monarchical regime with Intellect and law.
  2. The illegality of puppet and ceremonious governments and parliaments.
  3. The corruption and destruction of the country in the name of modernization and reform by the Pahlavi regime.
  4. The appointment of the government by Imam Khomeini backed by the nation's approval.
  5. Warning the nation about America's effort to return Muḥammad Riḍā Pahlawī.
  6. Advising and completing the argument to the army and appreciating the military personnel who joined the nation.[10]

The Imam's Unfavorable Health Condition due to the Pressure of the Crowd

After the end of the speech, due to the excessive overcrowding, the transfer of Imam Khomeini from Behesht-e Zahra (a) was only possible with the help of the oil company's ambulance and then a helicopter. He was supposed to go directly from Behesht-e Zahra (a) to the Al-Rifah School; but since his condition became unfavorable due to the pressure of the crowd, at the suggestion of Natiq Nuri, after the helicopter landed at the Hezar Takhtkhabi Hospital (Imam Khomeini), with a Peugeot car of one of the hospital's doctors (Sadiqi) and then with Natiq Nuri's Paykan, which was parked in an alley, at Imam Khomeini's own suggestion, he went to the house of Kishavarz (the son-in-law of Sayyid Murtaḍā Pasandīda) located on the old Shemiran road, Andisheh street.[11]

Notes

  1. ↑ Hamshahrī, 1374, 794.
  2. ↑ Hamshahrī, 1373, 858.
  3. ↑ Muʾassisa-yi Tanẓīm, Majmūʿa-yi Sukhanrānī-hā-yi Imām Khumaynī, 1/493-494 and 2/290, 328, 437.
  4. ↑ Khumaynī, Muṣāḥaba, 1/100; Yazdī, Ākhirīn Talāsh-hā, 378.
  5. ↑ Nīknām, Khāṭirāt, 462.
  6. ↑ Alwīrī, Khāṭirāt-i Murtaḍā Alwīrī, 71.
  7. ↑ Nāṭiq Nūrī, Pā-bih-pā-yi Āftāb, 6/73.
  8. ↑ Nīknām, Khāṭirāt, 463.
  9. ↑ Yazdī, Ākhirīn Talāsh-hā, 379.
  10. ↑ Imām Khumaynī, Ṣaḥīfa, 6/10-19.
  11. ↑ Nāṭiq Nūrī, Khāṭirāt, 1/159; Nāṭiq Nūrī, Pā-bih-pā-yi Āftāb, 6/74-75, quoting Sayyid Aḥmad Khumaynī; Khumaynī, Muṣāḥaba, 1/100.

References

  • Alwīrī, Murtaḍā, Khāṭirāt-i Murtaḍā Alwīrī, Tehran, Sāzmān-i Tablīghāt-i Islāmī, first edition, 1375 SH.
  • Khumaynī, Sayyid Aḥmad, Muṣāḥaba, published in Pā-bih-pā-yi Āftāb, compiled by Amīr Riḍā Sutūda, Tehran, Panjara, first edition, 1382 SH.
  • Muʾassisa-yi Tanẓīm wa Nashr-i Āthār-i Imām Khumaynī, Kawthar, Majmūʿa-yi Sukhanrānī-hā-yi Imām Khumaynī, Tehran, second edition, 1373 SH.
  • Nāṭiq Nūrī, ʿAlī Akbar, Khāṭirāt-i Ḥujjat al-Islām wa al-Muslimīn ʿAlī Akbar Nāṭiq Nūrī, compiled by Murtaḍā Mīrdār, Tehran, Markaz-i Asnād-i Inqilāb-i Islāmī, first edition, 1384 SH.
  • Nāṭiq Nūrī, ʿAlī Akbar, Muṣāḥaba, published in Pā-bih-pā-yi Āftāb, compiled by Amīr Riḍā Sutūda, Tehran, Panjara, first edition, 1382 SH.
  • Nīknām, Muḥammad Kāẓim, Khāṭirāt, appendix vol. 2 of Tashakkul-i Farāgīr, authored by ʿAbd Allāh Jāsbī, Tehran, Dānishgāh-i Āzād-i Islāmī, first edition, 1383 SH.
  • Hamshahrī, Kitāb-i Sāl 1373 wa 1374, years 1 and 2, Shahrdārī-yi Tihrān, 1373-1374 SH.
  • Yazdī, Ibrāhīm, Ākhirīn Talāsh-hā dar Ākhirīn Rūzhā, Tehran, Qalam, second revision, first edition, 1379 SH.
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