Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi - July 15, 2001 - Meeting with Abbas Ali Sarfarazi about His Conviction in the Special Clerical Court and Blaming Seyyed Ahmad Khomeini for His Problems

Meeting with Alireza Bahrampour and Hamed Marashi regarding issues between the Ministry of Post, Telegraph, and Telephone and the Rafsanjan Pistachio Cooperative, as well as the Mobile Industrial Complex and the prepaid phone project #Taliya.

Meeting with Ismail Hosseini Moghaddam, Imam Jom'e of Qorveh, and the then Governor of Baneh.

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Dr. Alireza Bahrampour, the CEO of the Telecommunications Company, and Mr. Hamed Marashi came. They spoke about the problems of the Ministry of Post, Telegraph, and Telephone, and the Rafsanjan Pistachio Cooperative, as well as the delay in mobile services, expressing concern about the replacement of their minister and sought assistance. I reminded them to resolve the dispute over shares between the Rafsanjan Industrial Complex, the Cooperative Bank of Rafsanjan, and Vali-e Asr University of Rafsanjan, which is in court, through agreement.

Mr. Ismail Hosseini Moghaddam, the Imam Jom'e of Qorveh, came with the former governor of Baneh. They discussed the lack of progress in construction, the decrease in development in the province, the increasing population of Sunnis in Qorveh, the decrease in Shi'ites, the weak representation of the leadership in the province, and the significant damage caused by locusts to wheat crops in Qorveh.

In the evening, Mr. Abbas Ali Sarfarazi arrived. He is a former colleague in the Islamic Republic Party and the Combatant Clergy Association of Tehran. He complained about the injustice of the Special Clerical Court and the Ministry of Intelligence against him a decade ago, which led to his dismissal and financial penalty. He stated that despite all this, he remains loyal to the revolution and requested the return of the funds taken from him; he believes that Haj Ahmad Agha Khomeini is responsible for his troubles.

Due to the explosion yesterday in northern Tel Aviv that killed three people and injured several others, Israel today conducted destructive attacks on Palestinians with helicopters, martyring and injuring many, and reported the presence of eight thousand Iranian Katyusha missiles in the hands of Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The visit of Pervez Musharraf, the President of Pakistan, to India has concluded, and they could not reach an agreement on a concluding statement; this was primarily due to the Kashmir issue. During the three-day visit, clashes at the Kashmir borders resulted in significant casualties. The European Union warned the U.S. to refrain from extending sanctions against Iran and Libya and to avoid resorting to extraterritorial laws. Russia and China have signed a twenty-year friendship agreement. The ongoing efforts of the U.S. to develop missile industries, contrary to the SALT treaty, have brought China and Russia closer together.