A young Iranian cleric lit social media on fire with claims that a censorship committee blocked his speech to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a recent visit with clerics.

Hojat al-Islam Heydar Abbasi, a former student official with Basij Organization, took to his Telegram account to publish the text of his speech that he says caused him to be eliminated as one of those who was to deliver a speech to Khamenei. Abbasi’s speech, which was never delivered, first begins with some of the positive outcomes of the Iranian revolution. However, it quickly dives into his many criticisms.

Abbasi complained of the “governmentalized” nature of student groups that he says have a “top-down aspect,” whereas the revolution had always aspired to have the people’s participation. He wrote that this tiered system has made the people secondary to the state and government.

Abbasi also wrote that there is a new trend in interpreting the role of the supreme leader, which he framed as wanting to “please” the leader. He wrote that this frame of thinking automatically ostracizes anyone who wants to criticize the leader. He asked rhetorically, “In the seminaries and universities, shouldn’t the environment be free in order to think about the issues of the revolution? Are all the intellectual activities correct only when they are limited to the statements of Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini] and yourself?”