Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – February 23, 1995

Mr. [Mustafa] Mirslim, [Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance], [Feridon Verdinjad=] Mahdinejad, [CEO of the Islamic Republic News Agency] and [Majid] Rezaiyan, [Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Iran Newspaper] came. They reported the publication of the Iranian newspaper. It has many customers and 100,000 copies of its circulation are sold out in the first minutes of publication. The problem of working with subsidies is that every time the circulation increases, more subsidies are required. They said that there are up to 700,000 copies and they have unanswered applicants from all over the country. I told them to move towards increasing the circulation and try to earn money by increasing the amount of advertisements. I promised to help. It has become a good newspaper.

Mr. [Abbas Ali] Vakili, [head of the headquarters for handling the affairs of freedmen] came. He reported the work of the Azadegan headquarters and complained about the lack of cooperation from the program and budget organization. as usual Mr. [Hasan] Shafti, [CEO of Homa Airlines] came.

Regarding his differences with Mr. Turkan, [Minister of Roads and Transport], he explained that it is mostly about the level of observing flight safety and expressed his desire to stay at work; Unlike in the past, when he showed more tendency to withdraw.

[Mr. Seyed Mohammad Safizadeh, the responsible director and] the new directors of Abrar newspaper came. They gave a work report, program and policies. They are wiser than the previous cadre. I promised to help and answered some questions.

In the evening, Dr. Velayati and his colleagues at [Economic Cooperation Organization] Eko came. They brought the work program in the Islamabad meeting and new proposals for the work of ECO in the direction of establishing free zones and joint exhibitions.

The former students of Haqqani school were my guests. About forty people, most of them are engaged in judicial, information and cultural affairs. After breaking the fast, they raised questions about economic, cultural, and political issues and discussed and made requests for establishing an official party. I came home It is raining well.