Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 24, 1995

In the reports, the Russian elections and the victory of the communists are hardly noticed. We had breakfast with the nurses like yesterday. I went to my office and did the work and read the reports until half past nine. I went to Shahid Motahari Mosque for the Fatiha meeting announced by Ayatollah Khamenei for his father. Other organizations and ourselves have announced our participation. Ayatollah Khamenei arrived a few minutes after me. Domestic personalities and representatives of foreign countries and crowds of people had made the parliament very heavy and crowded.

Praise and recitation of Quran were done and then Mr. Natiq Nouri gave a good speech and honored Hajiya Waldeh. I returned to my office at noon. A large number of relatives, mostly from Rafsanjan, came to the office and lunch was served. In the evening, a group went to Qom to be at the tomb for the third day.

In the evening, in the meeting of the government board, we had some resolutions. Mr. [Hasan] Habibi, [First Vice President], expressed his condolences on behalf of the cabinet members and I also responded. Sardar [Mohsen] Rezaei, the commander of the army, came. He gave a good report on the activities and history of the IRGC and explained my role in it. I also spoke. He invited the ministers to visit the Corps exhibition. He also asked for a gift, which was accepted.

I went to Ayatollah Khamenei's party. We talked about his father, his trip to Qom, and his trip to Rafsanjan, and the issue of renting a channel on the Arabsat satellite. Because I had a lot of work and they were lazy due to fasting, we shortened the meeting.

In my office, I had a sandwich for dinner. The nurses who had returned from Qom came to my office. We bought dinner for them. I talked with them for a while and slept at twelve o'clock at night.