Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – August 10, 1997

At home, I worked a little for the Koran key. I saw the reports until half past ten. It is significant that Russia is becoming more serious about determining the legal status of the Caspian Sea. Fati, Sara and Ali came to travel to Canada for treatment, they said goodbye.

Mr. [Ataullah] Mohajerani came. In his negotiations with the leadership of the Ministry of Culture and Guidance, he said that they wanted him to take the cultural invasion seriously and accept some kind of censorship and choose his colleagues from the revolutionary forces.

Mr. [Hossein] Mahluji and the deputies came. They gave a report on the current situation and steel, lead, zinc, copper and aluminum mines. Mr. [Ali] Shams Ardakani reported the trip to the Philippines, Mindanao and the wealth of Mindanao's economic reserves and agreements; If there is security, there is a lot of investment and aid; Because of water and land suitable for agriculture and oil and gas reserves and gold mines.

Mr. [Behrouz] Bo Shahri, [head of Qeshm Azad Region], explained the situation in Qeshm and Naja's resistance to stay at the airport, which is currently under the responsibility of the IRGC. They brought interesting gifts and plaques of thanks to my support of their work. They were supposed to bring it during the presidency, but they didn't get the chance. I also thanked them.

Mr. [Abbasali] Vakili, the head of the Azadegan headquarters [dealing with affairs], came. He did not have anything new and gave repeated explanations about his successes and asked for cooperation in the assembly.

Dr. Velayati came in the evening. He explained the situation of his hospital and we had a detailed discussion about the fate of the new government. Not very optimistic. He is not ready to cooperate in the implementation of the summit of the Organization of Islamic Conference.

Faeza came to see her. An interested engineer came and said that he plans to go to the university to continue his studies, and the possibility of his being a candidate for parliament representative from Isfahan - assuming that Mr. [Mustafa] Moin leaves the parliament - was raised. Salmani came for correction.

I was a guest of the leadership at night. They talked about the extension of the time to examine the amendment of the anti-narcotics law and the secretary of the assembly instead of Dr. [Hasan] Habibi, and also about the possibility of the US president congratulating Mr. Khatami - according to Mr. Kharazi - that he does not agree with the answer, as well as the issue of the detained managers of Tehran Municipality and the solution that did not reach a workable result.