In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded. - Ruhollah Khomeini

Tahrīr al-Wasīla vol. 1

Their plan is to keep us backward, to keep us in our present miserable state so they can exploit our riches, our underground wealth, our lands, and our human resources. They want us to remain afflicted and wretched, and our poor to be trapped in their misery. Instead of surrendering to the injunctions of Islam, which provide a solution for the problem of poverty, they and their agents wish to go on living in huge palaces and enjoying lives of abominable luxury.

This regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.