Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi - December 15, 2001

Convening a meeting of the expediency assessment assembly and approving clauses of the administrative changes of the country 

Thank you for the Friday prayer. 

The conviction of Mohammad Salamati, editor of the biweekly newspaper Asr Ma, the organ of the Mujahideen Organization of the Islamic Revolution and its peripheries 

Full text of the day: 

In most parts of Iran, it rains. The [system expediency recognition] assembly had a meeting. Two important clauses on regulating administrative changes and saving the country from the adverse effects of factional and partisan prejudices were approved. Mr. [Gholamhossein] Mohammadi Golpayani, [Head of the Leadership Office], thanked me for yesterday's sermons and thanked me for accepting Friday prayers out of time. I did not agree to take the turn of others, but because of the importance of the Palestinian issue and the special circumstances of World Jerusalem Day, I accepted. 

Pope John Paul II asked Christians to fast on the last Friday of Ramadan in harmony with Muslims. It had a good effect. The United States rejects the UN Security Council resolution on the deployment of international peacekeeping forces in Palestine; He wants to keep these troops in Afghanistan!!  

The European Union condemned the human rights abuses in Iran and the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs called for the EU action. The two-week court of "Asr Ma" arrested the organ of the Revolutionary Mujahideen Organization and sentenced Mr. [Mohammad] Salamati, the secretary general of the organization, to imprisonment. The organization, while strongly protesting, demanded to change the policy of "active peace" of the second Khordadi to "active resistance". A few days ago, the newspaper "Mellat" was also arrested. In Hormozgan and Zanjan, two publications were also closed. 

The leftists believe that the right wing, with the tools of the Guardian Council and the judiciary, seeks to eliminate them, and at the same time regularly creates the grounds for such collisions themselves; As if they feel that the government, the parliament, the city councils and the newspapers, which are mainly in their possession, cannot do any significant work for the people, or that these conflicts and tensions convince the people that the power of the upper hand of the right wing and the leadership is an obstacle to their work and that they retain their votes; The way they have gone over the years and achieved results.