The diaries of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Kharazi, Iran's Ambassador to France, expressing concern over the state of the country's management and foreign policy.

I told Zarif, Iran's representative to the UN: We must strive to remain safe from America's mischief.

Mohsen explained about Metro Line 1 from Mirdamad to Tajrish Square. From the Leader's Office regarding the prevention...

Report of a busy one-day trip to Tabriz: Inauguration of the congress for the birth centenary of Allameh Tabataba'i, visiting the construction of the Tabriz Metro, etc.

I cautioned [Gholamreza] Aghazadeh not to rush into signing the agreement for the return of spent nuclear fuel.

Media discussions regarding Mr. Khatami's trip to Pakistan and several explosions during the days of his presence in Pakistan.

The counter-revolutionary media, and occasionally the reformists, have become confused in response to the statements made yesterday by [Abbas] Abdi and his lawyer in court.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan expressed gratitude for my assistance to Azerbaijan during the early years of [their] independence.

Mr. Shahidi Moaddab, who has become the ambassador [of Iran] to Indonesia, came for a consultation.

Hussein Marashi said that the people of Khordad are worried about the news in Kayhan [the newspaper] that predicted the dissolution of the Participation Party.

He wanted to find out what was going on at the meeting of the heads of forces in the presence of the leadership.

The leaders of the Jewish community came. They complained about the bad language in some newspapers [about Jews] and said that they were against Zionism. They had written a letter about my recent sermon at Friday prayers about Christian Zionism, which I had replied to; they thanked me. Ali Larijani said, "There is no other way but for you to enter the scene and save the country from the crisis." I said, "Think of someone else."

 After the statements about the shortcomings of the Iraqi report, Tariq Aziz announced that Iraq was ready to provide additional information, but the US Secretary of State said that Saddam's time was up.Ms. Sayeh, the daughter of Saeidi Sirjani, [researcher, writer and political activist], said in a letter to Mr. Khatami, the President, that she would file a complaint with the International Court of Justice.

Tehran's judiciary has announced that one of the defendants in the Aindayz Institute case, who was involved indealings with foreigners, has fled Iran.A judge in the United States has ordered Iran to pay $300 million to a former American hostage in Lebanon.

  Last night and today, many parts of the country, including Tehran, received a good snowfall.Opening of the IRGC Combat Engineers and Construction Conference in the [Martyr] Kolahdouz HallThe US has summarized the 12,000-page Iraq report into 3,000 pages to give to other members of the Security Council. It is appropriate for Iran to try to obtain a copy of it.

Last night and today, there has been a good snowfall in many parts of the country, including Tehran.

Hossein Marashi wanted to understand to what extent the Leadership, the Guardian Council, or the Expediency Council were willing to...

Pishbin, the representative of Baft, said that the [Sixth] Parliament does no service other than political work. The right-wing faction has realized this today.

Dr. Jasbi came, accompanied by Hossein Rezazadeh. He recently broke the world record. He is a student at Islamic Azad University of Ardebil.

I told Mr. Dr. Aref to pay the foreign currency share of the Islamic Azad University.

Based on the military agreement between the US and Qatar, the US must maintain a minimum of 10,000 military personnel at Al Udeid Air Base at all times, in addition to 100 combat aircraft, and the US...