Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 11, 1995

It has been raining and snowing all over Iran for several days. The drought of the last two months has been compensated to some extent and the rain continues and we have floods in some cases. We had two marriages from the office staff; One of them was the daughter of our martyr's bodyguard, the late Moradi. Mr. [Qorban Ali] Dari [Najaf Abadi, head of the Parliament's Program and Budget Commission], had come to answer the contract and criticized the Parliament's regulations regarding the budget as well as the narrow-mindedness of the ruling group.

[Mr. Abdulaziz Ali Al-Kwari], the new ambassador of Qatar came to present his credentials. The talks were formal and casual and mostly related to the development of relationships. I asked two questions about the anger of the Emir of Qatar from the conference of the heads of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council and the frank interview of the Qatari minister about the Arabs and Israel, for whom the truth is bitter, but I did not get a correct answer.

[Mr. Ali Bakhsh Jahanbakhsh], the governor of Sistan and Baluchistan came. He gave a status report and asked for help. He gave a very poor answer regarding statistics; I thought it was inappropriate. Mr. Syed Morteza Askari came. He praised my principled actions and the reform of Iran's affairs. He considers them unprecedented in the history of Iran. He applied for the establishment of a religious university and had a recommendation about Iraq and Türkiye. [Mr. Ismail Nowrozi], the representative of Sarvestan, came. He appealed for cultural affairs and thanked the government for its services in depriving the region. In the evening in the Economic Council, we had some resolutions; including preventing overfishing in the North Sea and creating employment for fishermen, with scientific priority.