Akbar Hashemi's Memoirs - April 8, 2008 - Abdullah Jasbi's advice to participate in the upcoming presidential elections

🔸️ Continuation of Hashemi's public Nowruz meetings and negotiations with the relevant officials of the country, meeting with the family of Sardar Kiyomarth (Abdullah) Aqbai, the head of the Security Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and the first commander of the Greater Tehran Police District, to help Hashemi to release him from prison, which, with the complaint and intervention of Sardar Seyed Hassan  Firouzabadi, the then head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, was arrested.

Following Labafinejad's meeting with Hashemi and his reminder to Ishaq Jahangiri to pay his salary.

Abdullah Jasbi's advice to participate in the upcoming presidential elections and Hashemi's advice to consider transfer students of Islamic Azad University units.

Full text of the newspaper:

  Before noon, most of the time was devoted to Nowruz meetings of officials and managers.  Among the parliamentary and informal talks with the deputies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, about the unity of the Arabs in support of the unjust claims of the Emirates about the islands [Abu Mosi, Tunb Bozor and Tunb Kochuk] and also the letter of more than 300 representatives of the [House of Commons] of England [to request  Removing the name of the People's Mojahedin Organization from the list of terrorist organizations] was discussed;  for treatment  It was discussed with the managers of the Ministry of Commerce about the problem of the production of many agricultural products being more expensive than the world price.  Such as sugar, tea, wheat, fodder, oil, rice, etc.  They don't provide a remedy except more support from the government;  Although they know that the correct way is to modify the production method.  The managers of the [Ministry of] Jihad Construction are worried about the effect of the opinion of the Jihadists as a result of the merger of the Ministry.

  The family of Mr. [Abdullah] Aqbayi, [the former commander of the Greater Tehran Police Force], appealed to save him from prison.  They believe that he was imprisoned by the influence of the General Staff [of the armed forces].  I reminded Mr. [Ishaq] Jahangiri, [Minister of Industries] about paying the salary of Mr. Labafinejad, [the brother of Martyr Morteza Labafinejad], and Dr. [Abdullah] Jasbi, [President of Islamic Azad University], about considering the status of transfer students.  Dr. Jasbi consulted about running for the [presidential] election;  We did not reach a conclusion. 
The meeting of Arab heads of state in Amman ended today.  In the final resolution, there are good positions regarding Palestine;  Although in the case of the three islands, they have unjustly supported the UAE.  The United States vetoed the proposal of the seven non-aligned countries to the UN Security Council regarding the dispatch of peacekeeping forces [to Palestine], which angered the Arabs and the Islamic world.

  Some of the western research centers have commented on the fruitlessness of the year of dialogue between civilizations in the peace of the world;  Considering the crisis in the Middle East and the situation in Iraq, Kuwait, India, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Somalia, Sudan, Congo, etc., as well as the serious differences between Russia and the United States over Star Wars and cooperation with Iran.  Following the House of Commons, the British House of Lords approved the list of terrorist groups, including the hypocrites [People's Mojahedin Khalq Organization] and passed an executive resolution despite the opposition of some representatives.