Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 22, 1998

In the morning at home, I spent an hour correcting the guide interpretation profiles. I went to my office. Mr. [Mohammed] Mehraayin came [along with Mr. Mahmoud Khosravi Wafa, head of the Federation of Veterans and Disabled Persons]. He gave a report on the sports situation of the veterans and talked about the severe shortages. Their credits are one and a half billion tomans, of which they have received only 200 million tomans, and they have not been able to provide foreign purchases, which are the main equipment of the veterans. The economic recession of the country has made the situation of the veterans foundation like this. We talked a little about the struggle period and the days we were together in Evin prison.

Mr. Morteza Shirazi came. He was imprisoned with me in Qasr prison and he had a photo of me that we had taken in prison, which I had signed and given to him. He was accompanied by a person named Dolatkhah who cooperates with Faezeh in the Federation. Mr. Shirazi found financial problems and asked for help for a job.

Mr. [Ali Mohammad] Basharti, [former minister of the country] came. He talked about the case of Mr. [Gholamhossein] Karbaschi, [Mayor of Tehran] and Mr. [Hossein] Mahluji, [former Minister of Mines and Metals] and talked about the possible help and the bad state of the country's economy. In the evening, Mr. [Mohsen] Nurbakhsh, [Mohammed Ali] Najafi, [Mohammed Ali] Najafi, [Hossein] Marashi and Ali [Hashemi] came from [the members of the Central Council of the Construction Agents Party]. They requested to pursue the amnesty of the leader in the case of Mr. Karbaschi, in case of conviction in the [Court of] Appeal. I came home after breaking the fast. Fati had prepared iftar and some of the children were there.