Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 26, 1995

[Mr. Abdullah Bin Ali Al-Qutabi], Speaker of the Omani Parliament, came with a group of their representatives. The negotiations were friendly and ceremonial. He asked us to help Mr. Qaboos, [King of Oman], to solve our problem with the Emirates. [Mr. Gholamreza Aghazadeh], the oil minister came. gave a report on the possibilities of the problems caused by the new US sanctions and had suggestions for prevention; It is mainly based on special powers, to enable more mobility and maneuver in buying oil needs and selling oil.

[Mr. Jalal Mishari Al-Mutairi], Minister of Commerce of Kuwait came. The talks were about the development of cooperation. Dr. Habibi, [first vice president] came. He reported the results of his trip to Turkmenistan and talked about the parliamentary elections and his trip to Syria and Kazakhstan.

Mr. [Yahi] Al Ishaq, [Minister of Commerce] and Mr. [Mohammed] Nahavandian came. They talked about e-commerce and got permission to fight potato hoarding. Before noon, Mr. [Sidabrahim] Raisi, the head of the General Inspection Organization of the country, also came and sought solutions to activate the inspection. He thinks that today he is isolated, because he is not in the executive branch, the executive bodies do not pay attention to him and look at him as a nuisance. He emphasized on following my opinions. Mr. Masih Mohajeri, [president's social adviser] who returned from Mecca, came to offer condolences.

At the time of the brotherhood of Muhammad, he came for matters related to his late father's death and execution of wills. In the evening, at the meeting of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, we had several resolutions to establish non-governmental universities and solve the problem of Shahid Shahabadi schools. I stayed in my office at night.