Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 21, 1994

[Mr. Khalid Mahmood], the new ambassador of Pakistan came. He is very talkative and had a very long speech. [Mr. Khojahav Arkinnight], the ambassador of Uzbekistan came. He is the first ambassador and they don't have an embassy yet; Both of them came to present their credentials and the words were normal and ceremonial.

Mr. [Syed Mohammad Baqer] Hakim, [Speaker of the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq] and his brother Seyyed Abdul Sahib came. He informed that soon, they will travel to the north of Iraq, then Kuwait, and then London, and probably in the future, the opponents of Iraq will start an operation to put pressure on the Iraqi government, and he asked for help.

Mr. Fallahian, [Information Minister] came. Mr. Kashan [Deputy Central Bank] reported the case; It was not important, he was set to be released. Mr. [Mohammed] Faruzandeh,

[Ahmed] Vahid [Dastjerdi] and [Mohammed Hasan] Tolayi came and reported on the agreements with Ukraine to build airplanes and missiles, etc. They said that Ukraine is ready for any type of cooperation, except for nuclear weapons, which we have not asked for nuclear weapons, and they also reported on the agreements to sell weapons and repair equipment with Libya, and expressed Mr. Gaddafi's gratitude to me for hosting his family.

Mr. [Masih] Mohajeri and [Javad] Ajei came. They requested that I give an interview to Mr. Beheshti on the Friday morning program. They talked about authority and asked why I did not comment, and I said it was because of Mr. Khamenei's lack of consent for authority. They criticized the way of propaganda for the authority of Ayatollah Khamenei, which was resolved by Mr. Khamenei's speech.

In the evening, the government board had a meeting. The law amendment bill of the Ministry of Information was approved; We removed the condition of being a cleric and mujtahid. They had bought watermelons for Yalda night.