Iran, 2011

I am grateful

to the Almighty Allah, who has granted me once more

an opportunity to appear before the General Assembly.

I have the pleasure to express my sincere thanks to His

Excellency Mr. Joseph Deiss, President of the General

Assembly at its sixty-fifth session, for his tremendous

efforts during his tenure. I would also like to

congratulate His Excellency Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz

Al-Nasser on his election as the President of the

Assembly at its sixty-sixth session.

Let me seize this opportunity to pay tribute to all

those who lost their lives in the past year as a result of

natural disasters, in particular the victims of the tragic

famine in Somalia and the devastating flood in

Pakistan. I urge everyone to intensify their assistance

to the affected populations in those countries.

Over the past years, I have spoken about different

global issues and the need to introduce fundamental

changes in the current international order. Today,

considering international developments, I will try to

analyze the present situation from a different angle.

As everyone knows, the superiority of human

beings and their dominance over other creatures lie in

the very nature and the truth of humankind, which is a

divine gift and a manifestation of the divine spirit

embodying faith in God, the everlasting Creator and

Planner of the entire universe who shows compassion,

generosity, justice and integrity in both words and

deeds; the quest for dignity to reach the pinnacles of

perfection, the aspirations to elevate one’s material and

spiritual status and the longing to realize liberty;

defying oppression, corruption and discrimination and

trying to support the oppressed; seeking happiness and

lasting prosperity and security for all.

Those are some of the manifestations of common

divine and human attributes that can clearly be seen in

the historical aspirations of human beings to create a

heritage of art and literature, both in prose and poetry,

and in the socio-cultural and political movements of

human beings throughout the course of history. All

divine prophets and social reformers have invited

human beings to tread on this righteous path. God gave

dignity to humankind in order to elevate its status so

that it can assume the role of His successor on Earth.

It is vividly clear that, despite all historical

achievements, including the creation of the United

Nations, which was the product of untiring struggles

and the efforts of free-minded and justice-seeking

individuals and of international cooperation, human

societies remain far from fulfilling their noble desires

and aspirations. Most nations of the world are unhappy

with the current international circumstances. Despite

the general longing and aspiration for peace, progress

and fraternity, wars, mass murder, widespread poverty

and socio-economic and political crises continue to

infringe upon the rights and sovereignty of nations,

leaving behind irreparable damage to all nations

worldwide.

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Approximately, 3 billion of the world’s people

live on less than $2.50 a day, and over 200 million

people live without even having one proper meal per

day. Forty per cent of the world’s poorest populations

only share 5 per cent of global income, while 20 per

cent of the richest people share 75 per cent of

economic earnings worldwide. More than 20,000

innocent and destitute children around the world die

every day because of poverty. Eighty per cent of

financial resources in the United States of America are

controlled by 10 per cent of its people, while only

20 per cent of those resources belong to 90 per cent of

the population.

What are the causes and reasons behind these

inequalities? How can one remedy such injustice?

Those who dominate and run the centres of global

economic power put the blame on peoples’ religious

aspirations and the pursuit of the path of divine

prophets, or on the weakness of nations and the poor

performance of a number of groups or individuals.

They claim that only their views, approaches and

prescriptions can save humankind and the world

economy. I ask everyone here whether they think that

the root cause of the problems can be solved in the

prevailing international order of the way the world is

governed.

I want to draw attention to the following

questions. Who abducted by force tens of millions of

people from their homes in Africa and other regions of

the world during the dark period of slavery, making

Africans the victims of the materialistic greed of the

United States and Europe? Who imposed colonialism

on the world for over four centuries? Who occupied

lands and massively plundered other nations’

resources, destroyed talents and obliterated native

languages, cultures and national identities? Who

triggered the First and Second World Wars, which left

70 million dead and hundreds of millions injured or

homeless? Who created the wars in the Korean

peninsula and Viet Nam?

Who imposed, through deceit and hypocrisy, the

Zionist agenda and almost 60 years of war,

homelessness, terror and mass murder on the

Palestinian people and the countries of the region?

Who imposed and supported for decades military

dictatorships and totalitarian regimes on Asian, African

and Latin American nations, and established friendly

relations with all of them? Who used atomic bombs

against defenceless people and then stockpiled

thousands of warheads in their arsenals? Whose

economies rely on waging wars and selling arms?

Who provoked and encouraged Saddam Hussein

to invade and impose an eight-year war on Iran, and

who assisted and equipped him to deploy chemical

weapons against our cities and our people? Who used

the mysterious 11 September incident as a pretext to

attack Afghanistan and Iraq, killing, injuring and

displacing millions in those two countries, with the

ultimate goal of bringing the Middle East and its oil

resources under its domination?

Who undermined the Bretton Woods system and

printed trillions of dollars without the backing of gold

reserves or an equivalent currency, a move that

triggered inflation worldwide and was intended to prey

on the economic gains of other nations? What

country’s annual military spending exceeds $1 trillion

annually — more than the military budgets of all

countries of the world combined? Which Governments

are the ones most indebted in the world, and which

Government threatens all nations and countries on any

pretext?

Who dominates the policymaking establishments

of the world economy? Who are the ones who are

responsible for the world economic recession and are

imposing its consequences in the United States and

Europe on Asian, African, Latin American and all other

nations? Which Governments are ever ready to drop

thousands of bombs on other countries but ponder and

hesitate to send a bit of food aid to famine-stricken

people in Somalia or elsewhere? Who are the ones

dominating the Security Council, which is ostensibly

responsible for safeguarding international security?

There exist dozens of other similar questions, and

of course the answers are clear. The majority of nations

and Governments of the world have had no role in the

creation of the current global crisis, and in fact are

themselves the victims of such policies. It is as clear as

daylight that the same slave-masters and colonial

Powers that once triggered the two World Wars have

caused widespread misery and disorder, with far-

reaching effects across the globe since then. They

continue to control the international political centres

and the Security Council.

Do those arrogant Powers really have the

competence and ability to run or govern the world? Is

it acceptable that they call themselves the sole

defenders of freedom, democracy and human rights,

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while they attack and occupy other countries

militarily? Can the flower of democracy blossom from

NATO’s missiles, bombs and guns?

If some European countries still use the

Holocaust — after six decades — as an excuse to pay

ransom to the Zionists, should it not be an obligation of

the slave masters and colonial Powers to pay

reparations to the affected nations? If the damage and

losses of the period of slavery and colonialism were

indeed compensated for, what would happen to the

manipulators and behind-the-scenes political powers in

the United States and Europe? Would the gaps between

the North and the South remain? If only half of the

military expenditures of the United States and its allies

in NATO were cut to help solve the economic problems

in their own countries, would they be experiencing any

symptoms of the economic crisis? What would happen

if the same amount were allocated to poor nations?

What is the justification for the presence of

hundreds of United States military and intelligence

bases in various parts of the world, including 268 bases

in Germany, 124 in Japan, 87 in the Republic of Korea,

83 in Italy, 45 in the United Kingdom, 21 in Portugal

and hundreds of other bases in other parts of the

world? Is that anything other than military occupation?

Do not the bombs deployed in the United States bases

undermine the security of other nations?

The main question is the root causes of such

attitudes. The prime reason should be sought in the

beliefs and tendencies of the establishment, which is

made up of people in conflict with their inner human

instincts and disposition, who also have no faith in God

and in the path of the divine prophets to replace their

lust for power and materialistic ends with heavenly

values. To them, only power and wealth prevail. Every

attempt must be made to bring into focus those sinister

goals.

Oppressed nations have no hope to safeguard or

protect their legitimate rights against those Powers.

Those Powers seek their progress, prosperity and

dignity through the poverty, humiliation and

annihilation of others. They consider themselves

superior to others, enjoying special privileges or

concessions. They have no respect for others and

casually violate the rights of all nations and

Governments. They proclaim themselves the

indisputable custodians of all Governments and nations

through intimidation, recourse to threats and force, and

the abuse of international mechanisms.

They insist on imposing their lifestyle and beliefs

on others. They officially support racism. They weaken

countries through military intervention and destroy

their infrastructure in order to plunder their resources

by making them all the more dependent. They sow the

seeds of hate and hostility among nations and people of

different pursuits in order to prevent them from

fulfilling their goals of development and progress.

All cultural identities, lives and values, as well as

the wealth of nations and human values, including of

women, children and youth, are sacrificed to their

hegemonistic tendencies and their inclination to

enslave and capture other nations.

Hypocrisy and deceit are allowed in order to

secure their interests and imperialistic intentions. Drug

trafficking and the killing of innocent human beings

are also allowed in pursuit of such diabolical goals.

Despite NATO’s presence in occupied Afghanistan,

there has been a dramatic increase in the production of

illicit drugs in that country.

They tolerate no question or criticism and,

instead of presenting a reason for their violations, they

always put themselves in the position of a claimant.

By using their imperialistic media network,

which is under the influence of colonialism, they

threaten anyone who questions the Holocaust and the

event of 11 September with sanctions and military

action.

Last year, when the need to form a fact-finding

team to undertake a thorough investigation concerning

the hidden elements involved in the 11 September

incident was brought up — an idea also endorsed by all

independent Governments and nations, as well as by

the majority of people in the United States — my

country and I were pressured and threatened by the

Government of the United States. Instead of assigning

a fact-finding team, they killed the main perpetrator

and threw his body into the sea.

Would it not have been reasonable to bring to

justice and openly try the main perpetrator of the

incident in order to identify the elements and reasons

behind the safe space provided for the invading aircraft

to attack the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center?

Why should it not have been allowed to bring him to

trial so as to help efforts to recognize those who

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launched terrorist groups and brought wars and other

miseries into the region? Is there any classified

information that must be kept secret?

They view Zionism as a sacred notion or

ideology. Any question concerning its foundation and

history is condemned by them as an unforgivable sin.

However, they endorse and allow sacrileges and insults

against the beliefs of other divine religions.

Real freedom, justice, dignity and well-being and

lasting security are the rights of all nations. Those

values can be achieved neither by reliance on the

current inefficient system of world governance nor

through the intervention of the world’s arrogant Powers

or the gun barrels of NATO forces. Those values can be

realized only through independence, the recognition of

others’ rights, harmony and cooperation.

Is there any way to address the problems and

challenges besetting the world by using the prevailing

international mechanisms and tools so as to help

humankind achieve its long-standing aspirations of

peace, security and equality?

All those who tried to introduce reforms while

preserving the existing norms and tendencies have

failed. The valuable efforts made by the Non-Aligned

Movement, the Group of 77 and the Group of 15, as

well as by some prominent individuals, have failed to

bring about fundamental changes, although they did

have their respective impacts and effects.

The governance and management of the world

require fundamental reforms, but what has to be done

now? Efforts must be made, with firm resolve and

through collective cooperation, to map out a new plan

on the basis of principles and the very foundation of

such universal human values as monotheism, justice,

freedom, love and the quest for happiness, on the basis

of happiness for all.

The idea of creating the United Nations remains a

great and historic achievement of humankind. Its

importance must be appreciated and its capacities must

be used for our noble goals, to the extent possible. We

should not allow the Organization, which reflects the

collective will and shared aspirations of the community

of nations, to deviate from its main course and play

into the hands of the world Powers.

The necessary groundwork must be laid to ensure

collective participation and the involvement of nations

in efforts to promote lasting peace and security. The

shared and collective management of the world must

be achieved in its true sense and be based on the

underlying principles enshrined in international law.

Justice must serve as the criterion and the basis for all

international decisions and actions.

All of us should acknowledge the fact that there

is no way other than the shared and collective

management of the world to put an end to today’s

worldwide disorder, tyranny and discrimination. This is

indeed the only way to ensure the prosperity and

welfare of human society, which is an established and

vivid truth. While acknowledging that truth, one should

note that acknowledgement alone is not enough. We

must believe in it and spare no effort towards its

realization.

The shared and collective management of the

world is the legitimate right of all nations. As their

representatives, we have an obligation to defend their

rights. Although some Powers continuously try to

frustrate all international efforts aimed at promoting

collective cooperation, we must nevertheless

strengthen our belief in achieving the desired goal of

establishing shared and collective cooperation to run

the world.

The United Nations was created to enable the

effective participation of all nations in international

decision-making processes. We all know that this goal

has not yet been fulfilled, owing to the absence of

justice in the current management structures and

mechanisms of the United Nations.

The composition of the Security Council is unjust

and inequitable. Therefore, changes that include the

restructuring of the United Nations are considered as

the basic demands of nations and must be addressed by

the General Assembly.

During last year’s session, I emphasized the

importance of this issue and called for the designation

of the present decade as the decade of shared and

collective global management, and for all capacities

and resources to be mobilized in that direction. I would

now like to reiterate my proposal. I am sure that,

through international cooperation, the efforts of

committed world leaders and Governments, an

insistence on justice and the support of all other

nations, we can expedite the process of building a

bright common future. This movement is certainly on

the rightful path to its creation, and carries with it the

assurance of a promising future for humankind. That

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future will be built when humankind sets off on the

path of the divine prophets and the righteous, under the

leadership of Imam Al-Mahdi, the ultimate saviour of

humankind and the heir to all divine messengers and

leaders and to the pure generation of our great prophet.

The creation of a supreme and ideal society with

the arrival of a perfect human being who is a true and

sincere lover of all humankind is the guaranteed

promise of Allah. He will come with Jesus Christ to

lead those who love freedom and justice to eradicate

tyranny and discrimination and promote knowledge,

peace, justice, freedom and love across the world. He

will present to every single individual all the beauty of

the world and all good things that bring happiness, the

promise of a better tomorrow and the sweet taste of life

to all humankind.

Today nations have been awakened and, with the

increase in public awareness, they no longer submit to

oppression and discrimination. The world today is

witnessing more than ever a widespread awakening in

Islamic lands, in Asia, in Europe and in America.

Every day, those movements are expanding their scope

and influence to pursue the realization of justice,

freedom and the creation of a better tomorrow.

Our great nation, with its millennial civilization

and history, stands ready to join hands with other

nations to march along that beautiful path, in harmony

and in line with the shared aspirations of humankind.

Let us salute love and freedom, let us salute justice and

knowledge and let us salute the bright future that

awaits humankind.