Akbar Hashemi's memoirs - 1999 September 8 - Continued negotiations with Vaez Tabasi and specific electoral and political consultations, including criticism of the reforms.

Hashemi's visit to the exhibition and the buildings and belongings of Astan Quds Razavi in ​​the morning and evening.

Continuing negotiations with Vaez Tabasi and special electoral and political consultations, including criticism of reforms.

Before noon, we visited the Astan Quds [Razavi] exhibition. Cultural sectors, including education, research, publications, newspapers, magazines, and printing houses, and industrial sectors, including food factories, textile, sugar, construction materials, etc., and agriculture, including a variety of agricultural and horticultural products, and animal husbandry, had presented their products. ; It is an interesting collection and its growth was usually said to be the result of support during the construction period.

Then we visited the buildings of the research center and scientific schools and courtyards, including the 60,000 square meter large courtyard of Razavi University, and listened to the explanations of the engineers. Here too, they consider the prosperity of the construction of Astan Quds as the result of my unwavering help.

About 60 billion Tomans have been spent so far, of which 40 billion have been paid by the government. Regarding the demand of Astan Quds for the lands that have been taken over by government organizations from its endowments, such as airports, railways, and schools. Tens of billions of Tomans are still owed.

In the evening, we visited carpet museums and other departments, including the Museum of Leadership Gifts. I saw an interesting part 1,800 pieces of marine products, mostly shells, were donated to the museum by a Syrian Shiite collector.

I did an interview with IRIB about Astan Quds [Razavi] services. In the afternoon, I had a discussion with Mr. [Abbas Waez] Tabasi about the country's political issues. The advertising blackmail of Left Spectrum was criticized.