Akbar Hashemi's memoirs - 1999 July 8 - The margins of the seizure of Salam newspaper, according to the narration of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Khamenei's intervention in the speech of the opposition and the approval of the representatives and the extreme discomfort of the parliament members at that time

Frustration with Fereydon Verdinejad, the CEO of IRNA

The edges of the seizure of Salam newspaper according to the narration of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Seyyed Reza Zavarei said that it is good, the Imam should give 270 muzzles to the representatives.

Before noon Mr. [Ferydoun] Vardinejad, [CEO of the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA)] came home. He said, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave him the proposal of the Russian Embassy and consulted him. I said, considering the announcement of discomfort from the leadership and the right wing and the possibility of pressure against him, it is not bad for him to accept and work in another place for a few years and take care that the [IRNA] news agency does not fall into the hands of violent people. According to Mr. Majid Ansari, [Tehran's representative], he said that the leadership office asked him and Mr. [Ali Akbar] Natiq Nouri, [Speaker of the Majlis], and ordered them to help approve the plan to amend the press law.

Mr. Natiq took another time and spoke and Mr. Ansari refused to speak in opposition, and some other opponents also gave up, and this news spread among the representatives, and in addition, Mr. [Syed Ali Asghar Mir] Hejazi from the leadership office He spoke with several representatives in this regard; Some people were upset and some of them walked out of the assembly during the voting and some said that in the past Imam [Khomeini] sometimes gave such orders to the assembly. Give muzzles to the representatives and today it is reversed and the left wing is protesting.

I was in the office until five o'clock in the afternoon. Newspapers, their important issues are the press law and the closure of Salam newspaper. It seems that under the pressure of the government and the left forces, the Ministry of Information withdrew its complaint against Salam newspaper and the prosecution of the special clerical court issued a statement saying that the management of Salam newspaper has 40 criminal cases in court and Mr. Salam], he was sentenced to three years of ban from journalistic work and then this sentence was suspended in 1994 and he was summoned for interrogation yesterday and the case is ongoing.