Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – April 19, 1992

The helicopter landed in the governor's yard and from here we flew to the shipbuilding site of the Persian Gulf. Mr. [Hadi] Nejad Hosseinian, [Minister of Heavy Industries] and [Jalil] Khobra explained. It is a huge plan. Some of it was built before the revolution and some of it after the revolution. It has been left unfinished due to the violation of South Korean contractors. With the completion of the plan, he can repair 220,000 big and small ships and build a few ships in a year.

We visited the huge pond and two thousand and five hundred meters of dock and breakwater, as well as the elevator boat lift and the floating pond, and the shipbuilding workshops and the fishing boat assembly of Iran, which is very advanced and interesting. We saw the program of pounding and consolidating the ground, which is being implemented by means of a 60-ton impact that is released from a height of 30 meters with a crane. We are learning its technology from Germany. Lands are being prepared for building shipbuilding facilities on lands reclaimed from the sea. I said that finance should be used for foreign exchange needs.

We went to Lange port by plane. In the streets of the route, people had a warm welcome. We went to the city stadium. Mr. [Syed Mohammad Javad] Rukni, Friday imam said Khair Moghaddam. I also spoke and promised to lower the price of water; Now each cubic meter is 35 tomans; Because it is studied with desalinated water. We agreed to take fifteen tomans. I appreciated the peaceful coexistence of Shiites and Sunnis there. We visited the customs and port. I promised to help repair the port. We returned to Bandar Abbas.

In the evening, the families of martyrs and male and female students came. I spoke encouragingly to them. I went to Shahid Bahonar port, which is an export port. The army has occupied a part of the wharf and warehouses and a problem has arisen. I talked to some of the boatmen and saw the warehouses. We went to Takhti Stadium for a lecture. Imam Juma said a good welcome. People welcomed very warmly. A lot of people came, even though they came yesterday, but I didn't come because of the problem with the helicopters. I spoke in detail.

It was the night of the meeting of the administrative council of the province. All were provincial managers and representatives. [Mr. Ahmad Khorram], the governor, reported the situation of the province and talked about the services provided and gave an overview of the successful and prosperous province; To some extent, it is the same. Some of the representatives who are not good with the governor, relied more on the problems that they did not have a say in. I also spoke briefly about the general economic and political situation of the country. Several managers also spoke. We had dinner together. [Mr. Seyyed Hossein Marashi], the governor of Kerman, had also come and he was shaking hands with his comrades who did not vote, such as Mr. [Ishaq] Jahangiri and [Syed Mustafa] Zulqader.

The report states that in the western and northwestern parts of the country, a lot of snow has fallen and floods have occurred; God bless