The regime ruling over Iran — which came to power through the machinations of Western powers and with the backing of the Soviet Union, aimed at halting Iran's rapid economic, social, and military progress, and amid pressure from the Imperial State of Iran to raise oil prices in 1979 — is a corrupt structure devoid of competent management for leading the country. The leaders of the major industrial powers, gathered at the Guadeloupe Conference, concluded that they needed to dismantle Iran's governing structure — headed by the Shahanshah of Iran and run by educated, patriotic men and women — and install in its place a government built on hostility toward Iran and Iranians: one that would not only halt Iran's progress, but inflict such ruin and misery on our people that for generations to come they would be unable even to speak of reaching the gates of the Great Civilization or reclaiming their historic standing. Among the available options, they therefore chose political Islamic rule under the leadership of an illiterate, stateless, bloodthirsty, and contemptible cleric named Ruhollah Khomeini — knowing that, drawing on the book and doctrine of Velayat-e Faqih (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist), he was the best choice for dragging Iran back into an age of ignorance and desert tribalism.
The Plan to Annihilate Iran
When we speak of annihilation, we are speaking of land and blood — of country and nation, both of which had to be destroyed for annihilation to succeed. The land is the territory that had to be ruined: its forests and pastures destroyed; its rivers, lakes, and seas dried up or handed over to foreigners; its mines and mineral wealth squandered; its environment devastated and its fertile soil exported; its air and water polluted and rendered unlivable; and its development and prosperity obstructed.
Blood means the people of Iran — the Iranian nation — who, across their ancient history, managed to preserve their homeland and its borders, safeguard their national identity, and take pride and honor in standing as one of the standard-bearers of great human civilization. To destroy the blood (the nation), it was first necessary to estrange the people from their own past and history; then, by imposing poverty and tyranny and sowing division among society's different strata, to estrange the people from one another; and finally, by launching a devastating war, to send hundreds of thousands of children, young people, and the elderly to their deaths on the battlefronts.
Different social classes — from society's most disadvantaged, whom the regime claimed to champion as "the oppressed," to guilds, tradespeople, students and academics, women, workers, and farmers — were all targeted in an effort to make the Iranian nation submissive and reconciled to all of the regime's crimes and betrayals, and ultimately to convince the people that this was all they deserved — not the gates of the Great Civilization. The Iranian nation's repeated uprisings have shown, time and again, that the people of Iran reject this regime in its entirety and demand its overthrow.