The Imam judged that he should not make a plea or request from a person in whom he had no faith and regarded him as being among the unjust and wrongdoers. This was his premise. At one time, a group of members of the Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization in Iraq were arrested. Turab Haqq-Shenas had come to Iraq in this connection and carried a letter from late Ayatullah T?aliqani written in invisible handwriting for the Imam. I went with him to see the Imam. When he was received by the Imam, he exposed the letter. In order that he would know for sure that Haq-Shenas had come on his behalf, Ayatullah T?aliqani had recalled from memory their get-together with Mr. Zanjani that he had asked Mr. Haq-Shenas to narrate to the Imam. Late Ayatullah T?aliqani had also sent a message for me through Mr. Haqq-Shenas so that I would be sure that he was sent on his behalf. Of course this message also recalled from memory a meeting between me and Ayatullah T?aliqani from behind bars. From this message, Ayatullah T?aliqani intended to request the Imam to ask the Iraq authorities to release this group. After these events the Imam stated: "I must think about it." next day when we he received us he stated: "I will not intervene personally because if I make a plea to the Baathists, I will be indebted to them in the future and they too will ask me for something." I gave some explanations so that perhaps it would be effective but he stated: "If right now Mr. T?aliqani and Mr. Zanjani would be sitting here and both of them would request me to do this, I will not accept because I do not intend to make a plea from a person in whom I have no faith and consider him to be of the unjust and the oppressors; but if you can do something on your own, then there is no objection.[1]
[1]I will not intervene personally: Hujjat al-Islam Du'a'i