Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – February 18, 1984

I was at home all day. [Reading the script] I finished the series of Sheikh Fazlullah Nouri; It has a fundamental flaw. Mr. Mohsen Rezaei called from the front and said that the army brothers are not ready for the operation on the scheduled date. He emphasized that the deadline should not be extended for more than two days. We had a meeting with [Ayatollah] Mr. Khamenei and Mr. Ahmad at our house. [Ayatollah] Mr. Khamenei said that the army itself is not ready. We decided to have a meeting tonight with the presence of their commanders and make a realistic decision. Regarding hitting the cities, considering that the Iraqis have announced that they will not hit the cities for a week, and if we hit them, they will hit them, and they want to blame us in the future and that they are against hitting the cities. We decided to announce that we will not attack and if the Iraqis attack, we will retaliate.

A meeting of the Board of Directors of Sedavsima was held. The regulations for encouraging the correct speakers and punishing the wrong singers were approved, and it was decided to prepare a regulation to limit the broadcasting of the news of the meetings, and recommendations were also made regarding the monitoring of political issues of radio and television. In the evening, Mr. Tahmasabi - the claimant of the half tank invention - came and asked me to send people to test it again; I agreed, but I don't think it is successful.