Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – August 11, 1996

Dr. [Hasan] Habibi, [First Vice President], came to consult with Mr. [Najmuddin] Erbakan, the Prime Minister of Türkiye, to consult on the debatable issues. Today it enters Iran. We specified all the cases. Mr. [Abdelnaser] Hemmati, the head [general] of [central] insurance came. He reported the growth of insurance operations, which grew by more than 70% in 2014 and still has a lot of room for growth.

Mr. Masih Mohajeri, [president's social advisor and editor-in-chief of Jumohri-e-Islami newspaper], came to find out about the system's policy regarding the presidential election and the person in question. I said the policy and did not specify a person. Mr. [Ezzatollah] Zarghami, deputy director of the Ministry of Guidance came. The report of the actions and explanation of the festival gave eight years of sacred effort for the films related to the production in the government week and asked for help to strengthen the film and cinema industry and brought the necessary policies for the filmmakers.

Mr. [Abulqasem] Ashuri, deputy [civil engineering] of Tehran Municipality, came. He complained to the judiciary for harming municipal officials in connection with the elections; I consoled him. Dr. [Syed Hassan] Firouzabadi, [Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces], came to demand more credit for military salaries, in order to eliminate discrimination against civilian salary earners, but his arguments had the opposite result; Because the statistics he has prepared show that the soldiers are more suitable. The law said they should take 20% more than other countries, but now they are 30% ahead. Asr Salmani came for correction.

Mr. [Mohsen] Nurbakhsh, [CEO of Central Bank] came. He gave a report on the limits of bank facilities for various purposes and expressed his happiness about the possibility of Mr. [Mohammad Mohammadi] Ray Shahri's candidacy, which will divide the votes on the opposite side. The Supreme National Security Council had a meeting. The IRGC gave a report on operations against anti-revolutionary positions; not bad They talked about America's propaganda and threats against Iran and sought solutions. The Americans are troubled by the unexpected wave of global opposition against their new sanctions, and the actions are unpredictable; They are not balanced. The wave of opposition is still strong. We made predictions.