Among all the treacherous acts that the Pahlavi dynasty had committed against our society, no other acts of treason can be graver than their having destroyed our active manpower, or having rendered it inactive for a long period. Those who should have been at the service of the community, such as the great religious scholars and the intellectuals, had been taken to prison and detained for five, ten, or fifteen years.
Sahifeh-ye-Imam. V 6, P 23