Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi - December 4, 2001

Alireza Bahrampour's meeting with Hamed Marashi and a report on the progress of Talia's credit SIM cards project and calling for Hashemi's intervention to resolve the dispute between Wali Asr University and Rafsanjan Pistachio Workers Cooperative 

Mehdi Akbarzadeh's consultative meeting with the new team of the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad 

A consultative meeting of Seyyed Abdul Wahid Mousavi Lari and complaints about the sermons of Sheikh Mohammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi and Sheikh Ahmad Jannati 

Full text of the day: 

Dr. [Alireza] Bahrampour, Managing Director of Telecommunications [Company] and Hamed Marashi came. They gave a report on the situation of mobile phones and SIM cards and future plans. They said that the private sector welcomed and built investment in mobile development, gradually reducing the selling price of mobile phones and instead adding to the call rate and also selling SIM cards for several hours. They asked me to go to court and ask me to go to court. 

Dr. [Mehdi] Akbarzadeh came and complained that the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad did not pay attention to the research plan on the production of base poisons. Mr. [Abdul Wahed] Musavilari, Minister of Shur, came. He said, "It is a tangible conspiracy against national unity, the effects of which I see in creating a division between Shiites and Sunnis, and also the incitements of ethnic groups and ethnic minorities, and the political conflicts between the left and the right are further caused." He criticized Messrs. [Mohammad Taghi] Mesbah [Yazdi] and [Ahmad] Janati, and the fact that the tribune of lectures before Tehran's Friday prayer sermons and the IRGC's facilities are at the disposal of Mr. Mesbah and asked me to help create an understanding. I said, make a plan. I mentioned that the issue of creating ten provinces [states] can be the source of many disputes and is not practical, and it is better that the Ministry of the Interior does not pursue it. 

I came home for breakfast. On the way, we encountered heavy traffic. The Bonn Conference is nearing its final outcome and Mr. Hamid Karzai has been elected as the interim head of government and is busy appointing the members of the cabinet, the countries volunteering to help Afghanistan have convened a meeting and the presence of peacekeeping forces has been accepted. American bombardment of Taliban positions continues. The news reached that [Ayman] Zawahri, Al Qaeda's second man, was wounded. There is a conflict between the two branches of the Shiite Unity Party and the Akbar and Khalili branches in the millennium. 
Israel's all-out land, air and sea attacks on Gaza and the West Bank continue, and America has confirmed it as self-defense, and unfortunately, appropriate action is not seen in Islamic and Arab countries.