Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 25, 1995

I woke up with the call to prayer in the morning and did not sleep again. We had breakfast with the nurses and they left. In the reports, the Turkish election issue is important; The Islamic Welfare Party is the winner of the election. In advance, the Turkish army has announced that they will not allow the country's secular system to change, and the United States and Europe brazenly express their opposition to the Islamization of Türkiye. It is really strange. With all those advertisements and those waves, the Turkish people voted like this; Although to strengthen Mrs. [Tanso] Çiller's party, the European Union accepted Turkey into the European Economic Community a few days before the elections. Probably, Mr. [Najmuddin] Arbakan, [Leader of Refah Party], will have a problem to form a coalition government. For the Turkish elections, we donated one million dollars to Hizb-e-Islami Refah; We helped last year too.

The group of colleagues and sub-groups of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, including the Secretariat, the Academic Jihad Organization, the Department [= Organization for the Study and Compilation of Humanities Books of Universities] and the Center for Academic Books, the Women's Cultural and Social Council and the inspectorate came. Mr. [Mustafa] Mirslim, [Secretary of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution] reported and I also had a detailed discussion on the value of the work of the Supreme Council and its subcommittees.

Mr. [Qorban Ali] Dori Najafabadi, [Chairman of the Program and Budget Commission and Secretary of the High Selection Board of the country] came. He demanded continued cooperation in his selection and also criticized that non-clerics, such as [Mohammed Reza] Bahnar and [Syed Morteza] Nabavi, sometimes speak on behalf of the fighting clerical community. Regarding the budget that is in the parliament, he asked my opinion and said that the night before my mother's death, he dreamed that his own mother had died.

Mr. [Abulfazl] Hasan Begi, representative of Damghan, came. He reported the progress of his city and asked for the completion of Damghan to Khazar road. After my trip to Damghan, he explained about the vast pistachio project, that they are implementing a huge plan in the form of a joint-stock company. He criticized the working method of the majority of the parliament and said about his unquestioning obedience to me.

In the evening, I went to Tehran International Exhibition to open the technical and engineering exhibition of IRGC. Military ceremonies, ceremonies and salutations were performed. After settling in the station and passing several types of vehicles made by the IRGC - buses, minibuses, military vans, and rides - in front of the station, I visited the artifacts of agricultural tools, pressurized irrigation systems, tractor trailers, and the sand production line.

After Maghrib and Isha prayers, I visited several halls of the search department to find the bodies of the missing martyrs. So far, they have found about sixteen thousand bodies of martyrs. The army has also found five thousand bodies and we still have about eight thousand missing and four thousand unidentified bodies found. We visited the wartime explosives-contaminated land clearing department, the housing and barracks construction department, the structure and blocking of dangerous borders, and the halls for the reconstruction of tanks, cannons, personnel carriers, engineering and passenger vehicles, rides, vessels, and war tools, which is honestly very remarkable.

We reached the research section. We had a program that was broadcast live here; With the explanations of Generals [Mohsen] Rezaei, [Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC], [Reza] Irankhah, [CEO of the Self-Sufficient Jihad Organization of the IRGC], [Aziz] Jaafari, [Commander of the IRGC Ground Forces] and [Mohammad Baqer] Qalibaf, [Commander of the Khatam al-Anbia (PBUH) camp] and then my speech and the signing of the contract for the construction of 14 agricultural and industrial complexes along the borders, for the development of the border areas and changing the population there, which is a very important task. I came home