Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – February 14, 1986

Early in the morning, the news came that last night, part of the forces of the Guards of the President of Iraq were destroyed and part of our siege was broken, and our forces succeeded in breaking the embankment at a defensible point. We were relieved and gave the 12th announcement of Khatam camp. I informed Ayatollah Khamenei that I will not go to Tehran. They should pray the Friday prayer themselves and I emphasized on some things that should be said and not said.

According to the previous appointment, we drove to Dezful anonymously with Dr. Rohani and Yaser. The area between the roads is very interesting, green, fertile and prosperous. It was raining and we were relieved from being harmed by enemy planes. On the way, we bought lettuce from vendors on the side of the road, and on the way back, we ate in the desert and next to the Karun, and renewed the memory of the free and unfettered life of the colonial era.

Lunch was served at Dezful Air Base. He negotiated with Mr. Gharavi Rafsanjani [responsible for] the political ideology of the force and the commander of the force and Colonel Rizvani, the commander of the base, about the affairs of the war and the base. They buried the body of a devout Hezbollah pilot - Esadi Jahrami - whose plane crashed into an embankment yesterday after a successful attack due to the speed of its flight on the ground and was martyred.

There was a discussion about the bombs recently made by the IRGC to be used as retaliation against Iraq. We arrived in Ahvaz at six o'clock. Mr. [Ali] Shamkhani and [Mohsen] Rafiq Dost came from two front lines. They reported the situation. have been established They asked for facilities and permission to carry out limited operations in the northern front. It was done and negotiations were held to complete the work of the current operation. Yaser returned to Tehran from Dezful to reach his school. Mr. [Ali] Shamkhani said that about 6,000 soldiers were affected by the chemical [attack] of the enemy, of which about 1,000 people needed treatment and 20 people were martyred.