Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – August 25, 1997

A group of members of the delegation of Ansar al-Hussein (AS) came. Before the revolution, this board was one of the main centers for my lectures, propaganda, and teaching, and the documents left by SAVAK about me are partly related to this board. Mr. Mustafa Mirkhani thanked me and I had a friendly conversation referring to the records and documents of SAVAK. They brought an amount of aid for the earthquake victims of Khorasan.

Mr. [Gholamreza] Aghazadeh, the former minister of oil, came. He consulted about his future work and expressed his interest in working with me, and he expressed concern about the emergence of differences between the leadership and the president in the future and the emergence of problems, and he praised my management a lot.

Mr. [Ali] Ghayori and [Mohsen] Qaraati, [Head of the Prayer Staff] came. They asked for the preparation and implementation of a plan for the marriage of young people and also for the guidance of Qom students who have reached a bad situation due to mismanagement. They asked me to participate in the prayer promotion ceremony in Urmia.

Mr. Hossein Marashi, [Kerman representative] came. He explained the situation in the parliament and the situation of the opposing faction and the problem that has arisen for Mr. Abdullah Nouri in the Ministry of Interior - that the leadership did not agree with the dismissal of Timsar Lotfian, [Commander of the Police Force] and [Mohammed Reza] Naqdi, [Commander of Information Protection of the Police Force]-. Mr. Nouri has also abdicated his responsibility regarding Naja's security and it has been decided that the decision to replace the commander-in-chief will not be given.

In the evening Mr. Zanganeh [Oil Minister] came. He gave the report of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the progress of our economic cooperation with Saudi Arabia. Mr. [Siros] Naseri came from Geneva and talked about the stagnation of our cooperation with European countries and got an opinion about the negotiation with Barzan Tikriti regarding the relations with Iraq.

Ahmad's brotherly family, Mahmoud and Mousavi, came for the reconciliation ceremony of Ahmad and Parveen. I read their marriage contract. For some time now, the court has given a divorce at the request of Parvin. Now they remarried with some conditions. There was also modesty. We gave a Koran and some volumes of my books as gifts. I came home I worked on the Quran key. Efat also went to the appreciation ceremony of Mrs. [Shehla] Habibi at Al-Zahra University.