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Month archive

July 1981

22 diary entries in this month.

22 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 22, 1981

I was at work first thing in the morning. Late at night, news came that Biyara had been captured—a small Iraqi town near the border that had been taken by our forces.

21 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 21, 1981

At 9 a.m., I went to the parliament and read the reports. The previous night, shots had been fired at Mr. [Ali Akbar] Nateq-Nouri’s car. The driver was wounded, and no one else was in the car.

19 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hasheمی – July 19, 1981

Before going to Parliament, I visited the house that had been designated for us in our neighborhood. It was not impressive. They say it is more suitable from a security standpoint.

18 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 18, 1981

First thing in the morning, several security experts from the Army Staff came to inspect the security situation at my home. The guards had reported hearing unusual noises. They suspected that someone might be digging a tunnel.

17 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 17, 1981

I had an opportunity to rest and also managed to study. Before going to Friday Prayer, I reviewed the collection of news and events of the week that the Friday Prayer headquarters prepares each week for the Friday Prayer leader of Tehran.

16 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 16, 1981

I made up for the two-day delay in writing my memoirs and also spent an hour studying tafsir. Considering my own state of mind and the situation in society, I chose the verses concerning the Battle of Uhud. I then went to visit the Imam.

15 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 15, 1981

Since I had slept at Parliament the previous night, I started work an hour earlier. I read the reports, wrote the Arabic text of the Friday Prayer sermon, and sent it for translation.

14 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 14, 1981

I wrote the two days of delayed diary entries first thing in the morning. Then I went to the Majlis. We had an open session. The discussion concerned the budget bill. We were making good progress. There was an open session both in the morni…

13 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 13, 1981

I went to the Majlis with a slight delay. The discussion on the details of the budget bill began, and we made good progress. We had sessions in the morning and afternoon.

12 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 12, 1981

We had an open session, continuing the discussion of the general principles of the budget. I chaired half of the session, and Mr. [Ali-Akbar] Parvaresh chaired the other half.

11 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 11, 1981

Because of the budget, which according to the regulations required us to hold at least five hours of open session each day, we had scheduled the session to begin at six in the morning.

10 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 10, 1981

After having suhoor, I did not go back to sleep and spent two hours studying for the Friday prayer sermons. Ali, my nephew, who had spent two months on the western front with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, came to see me, and I was …

9 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 9, 1981

I went to the Majlis earlier than usual. Mr. Moradi, the Revolutionary Prosecutor of Rafsanjan, had come and asked for help because he had been dismissed. He believed that the influence of local rivals had played a role.

8 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 8, 1981

I went to bed very late at night, and even after suhoor, I did not get into a deep sleep. We had a public session, and the bill on political parties was under discussion.

7 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 7, 1981

I woke up late. After eating sahari, I had gone to sleep at three-thirty in the morning and woke with a start close to eight. The public session was supposed to begin at eight.

6 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 6, 1981

I wrote the two days of delayed memoirs. We had a public session, and the bill on political parties was on the agenda. Several articles were approved. I invited the new head of my office to begin work.

5 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 5, 1981

Early in the morning, Mr. Mohsen Rezaei came to the house and gave a report on the campaign against the various opposition groups. It became clear that the person responsible for the bombing of the Islamic Republican Party office, the fugit…

4 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 4, 1981

We did not have a public session. I went to the Majlis at around nine-thirty. I waited for some time for the Rules Committee, but the required quorum was not reached.

2 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 2, 1981

After Mr. Khamenei was injured, the Imam assigned me to lead the Friday prayers. In preparation for the Friday prayers, I studied some of the rulings concerning Friday prayers in Tahrir al-Wasila.

1 July 1981

Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 1, 1981

I went to Parliament at six in the morning, an hour before the plenary session, because early that morning we had received information that the counterrevolutionaries were planning acts of sabotage in Parliament.