Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – April 8, 1992

I reached my office at eight in the morning. The managers of the Islamic Revolution Housing Foundation came and reported; I spoke for them. Dr. [Abbas] Shibani, [Tehran's representative] came and applied for a loan for academicians' houses.

Mr. [Syed Abul Hassan] Nawab came from the leadership of the IRGC. He gave a report on the quality of accepting the resignations of the corps that wanted to participate in the elections. He said that extremists have prevented the company from participating. It was announced that about eight thousand students in Qom have been given free medical insurance and contrary to the forecast, the cost of their treatment has decreased in the last quarter. It was estimated to be 45 million tomans, but it was only 6 million tomans; This amount is paid by Mustafafan Foundation. They want to establish a cooperative for students. He appealed to McGill to send students [to the university].

Mr. [Nasser] Minachi, [a member of the Iranian Freedom Movement] came. He talked about his own entanglement due to his misconduct in the matter of taking eight million dollars from [Saeed] Rajaei Khorasani, [then Iran's representative to the United Nations] and Abbas's escape and claimed that the money was in a place called "Monico Company" in the bank and was blocked by the FBI [= American Federal Police]. He said that he wants to go abroad to find his son who is cooperating with the hypocrites. I told him to go with the information and coordination of the Ministry of Information.

Mr. [Mortaza] Al-Vairi, [Tehran's representative], said on the phone, Mr. [Ahmed] Ali Babaei, [national religious activist], was sent a message by engineer [Ezzatullah] Sahabhi and asked for a time to come to Iran. Mr. Sadegh Kharazi, [Deputy Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations] came. He reported the evil of the hypocrites in Iran's office at the UN headquarters. The American police acted very well and arrested a group, and during the presence of the police in the office, their dog discovered explosives in the closet, which they took away, and our office said that the hypocrites probably brought these materials. He was worried about American pressure.

Mr. [Hamid] Mirzadeh, [Executive Vice President] came for reconstruction matters. In the evening, Mr. [Sidhadi] Tabatabai came and asked for an opinion on the management of Khuzestan Sugarcane Company. Mr. [Abdullah] Nouri, [Interior Minister] came. He gave a report on the election situation. He complains about the Guardian Council; He is right.

We talked on the phone with the leadership in Mashhad about the publication of documents disqualifying the candidates. This is the request of some of them and the Guardian Council; We were supposed to wait.