Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 31, 1998

I was at home. Most of the time was spent studying the memoirs of Mr. [Mohammed Ali] Amouyi, [a prominent member of Iran's Tudeh Party], called "Dard Zamaneh"; He has written the long period of his prison very well and paid attention to the details, and he has references to the spiritual, moral, intellectual and scientific condition of most of the prisoners, from 1332 to 1357, and he has explained the groups and lines of thought relatively well, mostly about the left-wing and nationalist prisoners, and a little about the religious ones. The assessments are not far from reality. In most cases, the pen is fine too. It reminds me of many things that I have forgotten and I understand things that I did not know; It has gravity.

In the reports, the issue of Iraq is of interest. Iraq has announced that it no longer accepts the no-fly zone and does not allow foreign aircraft to fly over Iraq, and if they trespass, they will shoot them. America and England have announced that they will act as before. Yesterday, Iraq announced that it would shoot missiles at the aggressor planes and sometimes crash them, and America, denying that the plane crashed, announced that it would fly according to plan and bomb the Iraqi missile site. In the meantime, the Russians warn America and test new intercontinental missiles.

The Arab countries were supposed to hold a summit, but it was canceled due to the opposition of Egypt and Saudi Arabia. In Turkey, after the failure of introducing a party government and the inability of the leaders of some parties to attract the participation of others to form the cabinet, the president appointed a non-party person and a professional businessman to form the government. He has been trying for several days and has not succeeded yet. The installation of the Russian S-300 missile in Cyprus or [the island of] Crete [Greece], which is opposed by Türkiye, has strained the relations between Türkiye, Russia and Greece.

At night, the children were gathering iftar. Yasser finds and shows an old invitation card of me and Efat's wedding ceremony. During iftar, Mohsen announced that Mr. Khatami had an urgent job. It was decided to meet at eight o'clock in the evening; They came half an hour late. He told about the meeting with the leadership and Mr. Dori, [Minister of Information] and others about the issue of recent murders and consulted about the way to act and deal with it.

He said, Mr. [Mustafa] Mousavi, [= Kazemi], the Director General of the Security Directorate and a number of others, have confessed and claimed that Mr. Dori was also involved in committing murders in order to defend Islam and prevent dangers, but Mr. Dori denies it. They say that Mr. Mousavi is one of Mr. Khatami's like-minded people and was his candidate for the deputy of information security.

Their opinion is that Mr. Dori should announce that the Ministry of Intelligence has discovered the situation, which is the truth, and accept his weakness and shortcoming, and resign, and then Mr. Khatami should take charge of the ministry for a while and carry out reforms and deal with the perpetrators of the murders in accordance with the law. I said, the important issue is dealing with Mr. Dori's claim of being informed; In case of being informed or not, the treatment is different. It was decided to check and consult more.

Then they talked about the country's problems; The lack of foreign currency, the confusion of economic security with the issues of windfall wealth and the crude dealings of the judiciary and the media and the positions of the leadership and the harsh and rhetorical dealings of the pressure groups and the discouragement of the country's management and the lack of courage and risk-taking from them and the vagueness of the foreign policy and the unnecessary differences of the internal forces that must be resolved. He is upset about the recording of their talks with the leadership and considers it a sign of lack of trust.