Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 30, 1995

In the reports, the issue of Turkish elections is still considered. There is a strong effort to prevent the rule of the Welfare Party - similar to Algeria. Hakim brothers came. They told some about the situation in Iraq and their desire to plan a federal government in Iraq. I also promised that if it is well regulated, it can benefit Shia, but it cannot be brought up for now.

[Mr. Abbas Akhundi], Minister of Housing and Urban Development came. He gave the report of the trip to Libya and the negotiation of multi-billion dollar construction projects in housing and schools, etc., which I emphasized on serious follow-up. [Mr. Mohammad Arab], our ambassador came to Muscat. Because he had little time, he could not complete the report; It was supposed to come in the evening. Mr. [Ali Akbar] Natiq Nouri, [Speaker of the Parliament] came and told his problems regarding the implementation of the appointment of accepting five people from the opposite faction in the list of candidates in Tehran; It was decided to discuss more.

In the evening, our ambassador came again in Muscat. gave the report of the two-hour negotiation with Sultan Qaboos; He asked to transfer to me. He said that he did not do anything for Iran at the conference of the heads of the council in Muscat, because Qatar wanted to have the same thinking as the UAE against Saudi Arabia. Also, after the summit, the United States and the United Kingdom contacted the leaders and asked to raise the danger of Iran in some way, but they did not achieve their goal. He wants to cooperate with Iran to solve the problem of Ras Al Khaimah, which is located inside the territory of Oman. Fahd, [King of Saudi Arabia], called him before the meeting to hand over Amir Abdullah, [Crown of Saudi Arabia] as the head of the country, and raised the possibility of removing the tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Mr. [Mehdi] Safari, our ambassador in Russia, came. He told about the progress of cooperation with Russia and the possibility of further development and examples of taking sensitive needs. Mr. [Hasan] Rouhani, the secretary of the Supreme Security Council, came. He gave the report of the trip to Germany for the examination of the disc and brought up Germany's proposal for negotiations between me and Mr. [Helmut] Kohl, the [Prime Minister]'s special representative on European issues, and we talked about the elections.

At night, the Supreme Security Council had a meeting. The wiretapping plan was completed and the quality of dealing with American pressure was negotiated. On the way home, Mr. [Ali] Fallahian, [Information Minister], got into my car and complained to Mr. Natiq Nouri for insisting on gathering information for special inspections [Leadership Office] and impeachment, and made suggestions about more control of free trade zones.