Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – January 13, 1992

I reached my office at eight in the morning. At nine o'clock in the morning, [Mr. Atatasios Chaldaris], the president of the Greek Parliament, came. The talks were mostly about the situation in the Balkans. They are sensitive about Türkiye; They warned about the danger of their expansionism. They are worried about the independence of the Republic of Macedonia from Yugoslavia and they are against its name, because this name is from Greece. They are worried about the attraction of Greek Muslims to it and claim their territory; I asked more questions than talking.

[Mr. Mustafa Taherizadeh and Seyed Mohammad Hairi], the representatives of Flowerjan and Ilam came. The first one talked about the steel industry and the second one about the needs of Ilam. Mrs. [Marzieh] Dabbagh came and talked about the cultural and moral issues of society and criticized television.

Mr. [Qorban Ali] Saleh Abadi, representative of Mashhad, came. He apologized for his and his friends' anti-government positions and expressed concern about their removal, and complained and asked for help from being summoned to the Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office twice and accused of acting against security. I said that their faction made a mistake in adopting positions, considering the good presence of their like-minded people in the three powers.

[Mr. Dr. Malekzadeh, Dr. Velayati, Dr. Davalit, Dr. Sadrizadeh and Etimadian], members of the Board of Trustees for the fight against leprosy had a meeting. Explanations and slides upset me. so that I ate lunch with difficulty; Even though I had not eaten breakfast. We made decisions to strengthen educational, welfare, treatment and cure aspects.

In the evening, Mr. [Syed Mahmoud] Da'ai, [the director of Information newspaper] came and asked for currency to strengthen the printing press of Information. The Economic Council had a meeting. We had approvals about strengthening the cement industry and increasing cement production.