Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – January 1, 1984

I managed the public meeting until ten o'clock in the morning. At ten o'clock we had a meeting with the commanders of the ground forces and the IRGC in Mr. Khamenei's office. The discussion was about the command of the operation, which we have suffered a long time ago due to duplicity. They have a difference of opinion. Colonel Sayad Shirazi believes that the army should command the front and the army should act under their command. But it is not practical. The majority is with the Corps. The imam has bitterly ordered to resolve the differences. They had brought plans to resolve the dispute, but still the same spirit was at work. Finally, we returned to the same previous formula regarding the command of future operations - division of work into two camps and two separate parts of one operation - I stayed there at noon and rested. In the evening, the central council of the [Islamic Republic] party and the arbitration council had a meeting in the evening. We stayed in the president's office until 10 o'clock in the evening, and at the end of the night in the parliament, I watched a movie and fell asleep.