Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – February 9, 1984

I was at home all day. Due to excessive fatigue, I spent most of my time resting. Mr. Ahmad came; Eleven members of parliament brought a letter to the imam in which they asked the imam to ban the right of women to be elected to the parliament, as in 2041. He said that someone had already come to the Imam and asked that the Imam give such an order to the Guardian Council. But Imam forbade them and said that these words are harmful. He took the letter to Imam and returned. He informed me that the imam had ordered me to call these gentlemen in the assembly and tell them that depriving women of the right to [vote] is against Sharia, and during the time of the Shah, we considered all the activities of the assembly as haram, including this; Not that we saw any problems in electing women, and today, when all affairs of the parliament are Shariah, their participation is also Shariah, intellectual and human like men.

Mr. [Fazlullah] Mahalati [representative of the Imam in the Guards Corps] also came. He said some of the situation of the Revolutionary Guards and the problems of the IRGC's intelligence in relation to the Tehran Revolutionary Prosecutor. I used to read reports at home until the end of the night. It seemed that the Iraqis were afraid of the announcement of countermeasures like ours about hitting the cities and ordered the evacuation of the important warehouses of Basra; The counter-revolution is also horrified by the death of [General Gholam Ali] Owaisi in Paris.