Memories of Akbar Hashemi, 26 Mehr 1380

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Although the media of Iran and other media have announced the deployment of US ground forces around Kandahar, this news has not been confirmed yet. [US President] Mr. [George] Bush said that ground operations will begin in the near future.

Rumors were circulating in the past days that [Vakeel Ahmad] Mutawakkel, the guarantor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Taliban, has either fled or gone to Pakistan and Islamabad for secret negotiations to reach an understanding with the United States, and yesterday he also said that the Taliban had given up on the conditions for providing documents from the United States. And if America ends its attacks, the Taliban are ready to hand Bin Laden over to a third country for trial. But these have not been confirmed either.

It was announced that the Taliban have taken half of the grains in the International Red Cross warehouses in Afghanistan and it was also reported that the international aid warehouses were damaged in the bombings and a truck carrying Afghan refugees was targeted in the east of the country and the passengers were killed. The camps that Iran has established inside Afghanistan along the borders are gradually becoming active with the arrival of Afghan refugees, but the influx of refugee refugees is not large and there are attempts by the Taliban.

The forces of the northern front are approaching Mazar-e-Sharif and it is said that America wants to use Mazar-e-Sharif airport to support the war. Iran's favorable response to America's message regarding assistance to American planes in case of emergency to the airport in Iran was published by western media and little by little the cooperation agreement between America and Iran was interpreted confidentially and there is a lot of propaganda about it. [Mr. Hamidreza Asefi], the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had to deny it today.

The psychological pressure on the United States has increased due to the problems caused by the war to the ordinary people of Afghanistan, and the propaganda about food and medicine aid has not yielded any results, and they have resorted to the promises of reconstruction of Afghanistan to spice up the admission of the shortcoming of the West after the defeat of the Soviet Union. They have done it.

Worry about the development of the use of the anthrax bacterium has engulfed the United States and overshadowed everything. The suspension of the US House of Representatives until next Monday, due to the proof of the presence of envelopes containing anthrax in the Senate President's office and the exposure of 31 members of the House staff to the germ, as well as the discovery of bacteria in the office of the governor of New York and the discovery of more than two thousand suspicious cases and more in sensitive places. And the inability of the police and the CIA to fight has weakened the confidence of the Americans in their own protection, and the lack of necessary medicine and masks, harassment and rumors, and the spread of rumors, have made things more difficult, and the opinions of experts that have concentrated such bacteria require high expertise and techniques. They are few in the world, Brabham added, and the frequency of sending envelopes to abortion clinics, which are hated by American moralists, has intensified the suspicion that the conspiracy is internal, and the government has also said that it does not have the reason to attribute it to terrorists, and the problem is gradually becoming an epidemic all over the world.

Pulling the danger alarm in Israel [=Parliament] and sending two representatives to the hospital for testing and also discovering the envelope containing the white and smelly powder in other places and in many western and eastern countries, made the issue global and talked about the access of terrorists to nuclear materials. It has also increased concern.

The broadcast of news about the desired government of the United States in Afghanistan has worried both the Northern Front and the Taliban and fueled critical differences, and [Colin] Powell, [US Secretary of State], has introduced the trip to the region in this direction. The conflict between Pakistan and India over the Kashmir issue has intensified with Powell's statements and a military conflict has arisen on their border, and serious discussions have begun in American academic centers about the mistakes of American foreign policy.