The night before the day when the Imam was to depart from Paris for Tehran which was postponed for a later date, the residents of Neauphle le-Chateau carrying large number of bouquets even Christian women who did not believe in the ‘hijab’ covering, had donned scarves and come to meet the Imam. That night the Christian inhabitants had an extraordinary condition—all of them were sobbing. The great leader of the Islamic Revolution in a very brief speech, asked his neighbors for forgiveness stating: “I ask to be forgiven. In this period that I was staying here, I caused a lot of headaches for you.” After the interpreter had translated the speech of the Imam, the residents of Neauphle le-Château broke down and cried.
I ask to be forgiven: Hadi Ghaffari