Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – August 12, 1990

The officials of the political ideology department of the army came. I spoke to them; Mr. [Gholamreza] Safaei, [the head of political ideology of the army], asked for work facilities. Newspaper editors and [Mr. Mohammad Hashemi], the head of the broadcasting organization, came. I explained the regime's policies regarding dealing with Iraq and their opponents in the Kuwait issue for them to follow in the media; I answered their questions.

Mr. [Mohammed] Ghori [Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone] came. He explained about the telecommunication development plans and tried to get my agreement to increase the price of the telephone conversation. Asr Mohsen [Hashmi, head of the President's Inspection Office] came for the current affairs of the country. I attended the meeting of the government board.

At night, Dr. Rouhani, [Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council], came and asked for an opinion on current issues. The Soviets have asked us to agree that 40,000 of their citizens in Iraq will be transferred to the Soviet Union through Iran. Because the possibility of misuse of the plane, in return, to deliver supplies to Iraq goes towards breaking the embargo; We emphasized that they should leave Iraq by land.

I was Mr. Khamenei's guest at night. We discussed the current issues of the country. It was decided to form a group in order to define Islamic limits in dealing with social corruption and also to provide facilities for the implementation of Sahlah and Samha religion so that the youths are not forced to commit corruption. I arrived home late.