having to resort to every trick in the book; and this is because he serves them better than anyone else could.

From the very beginning our argument has been and still is that we have a country of our own which we want to keep for ourselves. We don't want America to be our guardian. We don't want all of the nation's assets to be taken by America, or for the Soviet Union to take them away. We don't want our gas to be taken by the Soviet Union and our oil to be taken by America. Tell me, is it an open house here where anyone can take whatever he wants!? We don't want it to be like this. We are a nation in our own right, and whether you like it or not, we want to be the ones who benefit from our own land, from our own water, from our own oil and from our own resources, each of which are in bounteous abundance. Yes, we want to benefit from all of these resources and to drive away those thieves who continually eat them up and take them away. We want to drive this regime out too, and to administer our own country ourselves. We are not in need of a guardian. Whether we run the country badly or we run it well, at least we will have done it ourselves. This is the case we argue.

Who has the right to say "No, someone else has to come and control your affairs"? What business is it of theirs? Whether we want to administer the country or are in fact able to do so is beside the point; our demand is that you all get out. As for what would happen once these have gone, once we have driven out these parasites and these gluttons for oil the "superpowers" being both parasites and gluttons for oil, and this Pahlavi family along with all those who have had dealings with this family over the past fifty years, being the parasites who are benefiting from the wealth of our very own country whilst our youngsters are paying the price with their lives - we argue that were we to drive these out, we would then be able to fully administer this rich nation of ours unaided.

It is not that our national budget is inadequate, it is that those who partake of it are many! Paying for those public relations officers both at home and abroad to uphold the Shah's regime and for others such as these advisers they bring in from abroad, takes a tremendous amount out of the budget. All of these people have poured into this country for our resources which they are now busy plundering and taking away. If we