Akbar Hashemi's Memoirs - September 22, 2002

Sheikh Qudrat Alikhani said that some of the leaders of the Second Khordad Party had two meetings in recent days at the homes of Mr. Karoubi and Imam Jamarani and were unable to decide on the future of their work if the two new bills were rejected, and they also had differences of opinion.

Full text of the daily:

The staff of the Commemoration of the Verses of Sacrifice came. They gave an explanation about the selfless and educated women. I talked about the position of women in society and the exceptional opportunity for Iranian women in the shadow of the Iranian Revolution, which can combine material and spiritual progress.

[Sardar Reza Seifollahi, commander of the Nasr headquarters of the Revolutionary Guards, accompanied by] Mr. Nechirvan Barzani, Prime Minister of the Iraqi Kurdish Barzani government, and his entourage came.He spoke about the situation in Iraq and the possible American attack on Iraq and the American expectations of them, and expressed his concern about Turkey's aggression on Kirkuk under the pretext of the presence of Turkmens, where there are about 600,000 Turkmens in total throughout Iraq, and asked us to advise Turkey. He said that they had no information about them or the method of the American attack. If there was a war, American ground forces would probably enter Iraq from Turkey, Jordan, and Kuwait, and would eventually encircle Baghdad. The Americans were concerned about Iran's position, and their representative, Hoshyar Zebari, who had gone to America as part of the opposition delegation, defended Iran during the negotiations and considered Iran a true friend of the Iraqi Kurds.

In the afternoon, Dr. [Issa] Kalantari, [the head of the Farmer's House], and Engineer [Mehdi] Mofidi, the CEO of Khuzestan Sugarcane, arrived.They complained about the government’s lack of attention to the project and its one-year stagnation, and expressed hope that the new decision of the banks regarding legal participation would activate the project, and they also criticized the government’s lack of attention to the project to transfer Sirvan water to Sar-e-Pul-e-Zahab. Mr. Kalantari spoke about the progress of establishing the Keshavarz House.

Mr. Sheikh Qudrat Alikhani, [representative of Buyin-e-Zahra], came. He said that some of the leaders of the Second Khordad Party had two meetings in recent days at the homes of Mr. [Mehdi] Karroubi, [Speaker of the Parliament], and [Seyed Mehdi] Imam Jamarani, and they were unable to decide on the future of their work in the event of the rejection of the two new bills, and they also had differences of opinion. Mr. Sheikh Yousef Sanei was also present at the meeting at Mr. Imam Jamarani’s home, and Mr. [Seyed Abdul Karim Mousavi] Ardebili was supposed to attend, but he did not.In Palestine, the Israelis continue to demolish the buildings of the government center of [Palestinian Authority] [Yasser] Arafat, and people are demonstrating against them. Several people have been killed. In England, 300,000 farmers demonstrated against the government; most of them are rural