Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 11, 1996

[Mr. Ali Asghar Ahmadi], representative and governor and imam of Shahrood came. They requested me to go to Shahrood to open a cement factory, airport and hospital. They said that they will no longer follow the talk of separation from Semnan and they had demands for Imran. [Mr. Ezzatullah Nouri], the representative and the imam of Juma Qorwa came. They complained about the governor and had many demands for the development of the city.

Mr. [Hossein] Ansari, the representative of Neishabur, came. He made several requests for construction and aid to schools and expressed his readiness to cooperate with me more and said that he has an original research on religious governance.

Considering the new composition, we went to meet the leadership with the members of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution. I gave a short speech and he also gave a detailed speech about the council's past services and future plans and emphasized paying more attention to public culture.

In the evening, I did the office work and read my diary documents. The Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution had a meeting at night. There was some discussion on how to work with the new composition and it was agreed that a group should investigate and propose to modify the structure and content. We approved the presidents of two universities and allowed Razavi University of Sciences of Mashhad to have a special entrance exam.