Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – August 1, 1996

I signed the marriage contract of one of the office employees and also of Mr. Momeni Shahmirzadi's daughter. The Board of Trustees of Tabriz University came. They requested me to participate in the commemoration ceremony of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Tabriz University. It was decided that I will accept if it coincides with the commissioning ceremony of the huge water transfer project of Zarineh Rood to Tabriz. There were other demands for the development of the province.

Akhvi Mohammad, [Executive Deputy of the President], came for the issues of market regulation and reconstruction and the expenses of the President's special appropriations. Mr. [Ali] Tabesh, Deputy [Political] Minister of Interior came. He got an opinion about the council elections and the time of the presidential elections. It was decided that this year the city and village council elections will start and the presidential elections will be held in the first half of June 2016.

In the evening, in the meeting of the government board, we had some resolutions. I emphasized on the preparations of the institutions to take advantage of the visit of Mr. [Najmuddin] Erbakan, the Prime Minister of Turkey, who is supposed to come to Iran with a large delegation from various government departments and the private sector of Turkey.

In the evening, the central council of the militant clergy community had a meeting in my office. The discussion was about the new constitution of the society. At the end of the night, they announced that a Qatari criminal who was sentenced to death was going to be executed. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants to be released as part of a deal with Qatar. I told Mohsen to follow up to delay it. It turned out that he was executed yesterday evening. Probably, the Ministry of Information acted arbitrarily; It was decided that Mr. [Mohammed] Yazdi, [head of the Judiciary] will handle the case. I slept late at night in my office.