Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – April 28, 1984

I went to the assembly early in the morning. Reports show that the Westerners do not want the explosion of a Saudi ship in the Persian Gulf to become too big to cause a crisis in the oil situation. We are not against this policy either.

I went to the Majlis Hall for the funeral of Martyr Mehdi Shahabadi. A large crowd had come. We saw the corpse; A small shrapnel had hit the eye and damaged the brain. His companions, including engineer [Mahdi] Chamran and [Mohammed Ali] Tatari [Zahedan representative], said that they were returning from watching the downed Iraqi plane in Majnoon Island when a bullet hit the ground eight meters away from us and only one shrapnel hit them. Before the burial of the martyr's body, Mr. Mahdavi Kony and I gave a speech.

I had a meeting with Mr. Mohsen Rezaei in my office. He told the situation of the front and was worried about Mr. Montazeri's sharp approach. Mr. Mohsen Rafiq Dost came and told about the lack of war budget. Mr. Khair came. He was upset about not voting; Like other losers, he blamed his failure on other factors. One of the employees of the parliament came and complained about the administrative situation of the parliament and work.

Mr. Seyyed Hasan Mousavi [Tabrizi] came and was upset about the defeat in the Hashtroud elections; And he blamed this failure on the violation of the army and... Mr. Kazemi, a representative candidate from Khorramabad, who fell to the second round, came and had similar words. In the evening, Mr. [Ali] Fallahian, the person in charge of the [Islamic Revolution] committee, came and gave comments on the lack of budget of the committee, the problem of information, the prevalence of moral corruption, and regarding the police.

Mr. [Ali Akbar] Ash'ari and Mr. [Ali] Larijani came from the central election monitoring headquarters; They talked one-way and mostly talked about the violations of the radical movement. I emphasized that they should maintain neutrality and not increase the danger of the Guardian Council being accused. The cancellation of Shiraz and Amol elections is like this.

The members of the seminar, the officials of the intelligence departments of Kurdistan province [and the intelligence council of the Hamza base] came. I spoke for them and asked them to investigate more about discovering the reasons why the field of counter-revolutionary activity has been provided in Kurdistan province.

Mr. Babayi, the father of Shahidi's family, whose wife is Japanese, came. On the anniversary of their son's martyrdom in the front, they brought ten million Japanese yen to help the front. The president of Mazandaran University came and gave a report on the situation of the university and said about the lack of funds and student dormitories. In the evening, the Supervisory Council of Radio and Television had a meeting at the house of Mr. [Mohsen] Daagu. We decided on the programs of Ramadan and also on the role of women.