Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 26, 1990

Mr. [Hamid] Mirzadeh, [Executive Vice President], came for current affairs and reconstruction and promised me to participate in the international reconstruction conference. [Mr. Gholamreza Aghazadeh], the oil minister, came and gave a report on the state of oil production and sales.

A group of members of the students' Islamic associations came. In front of extremists and governments, they have started a moderate movement; They explained about the plans and goals and gave references. I agreed to help them and told them to spread the news of their meeting.

The Supreme Administrative Council had a meeting. We have finished the review of the bill on the coordinated payment system. I had lunch with Yasser. In the evening, I attended the meeting of the government board. They reported that the issue of impeachment of Dr. [Iraj] Fazel, Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education, was raised in the parliament. I had already told Dr. [Alireza] Farzad, [Chairman of the Parliament's Health and Welfare Commission] not to take action. I think they acted under the influence of the change of the president of Mashhad University [Medical Sciences].

I stayed in the office at night in order to do the work and to take care of the security guards, so that they would not have any problems returning in this cold and snow-filled streets. The family is also traveling. At noon, a group of IRGC Intelligence members came and gave a report on the condition of Salman Rushdie, [the author of the book Ayat Shaitani].

The Central Bank informed that [Mr. Sheikh Jaber Al-Sabah], Emir of Kuwait, has sent an amount of ten million dollars to help rebuild the earthquake-stricken areas [Roodbar and Manjil].