Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – January 2, 1998

I was at home. It snowed well. The Friday prayer was led by the leader. Asr Fati came during the rain. There was some discussion about some inappropriate discrimination against women. Children and Hossein Marashi and his family had iftar. Hossein informed that after [Mr. Hossein Mozafar], Minister of Education, announced the removal of public model schools in the next year, the Parliament's Consolidation Commission, to prevent the decision of the Ministry, immediately approved a clause related to the development of these schools.

Mr. Marashi said that Mr. Khatami's election headquarters had a meeting in Tehran a few days ago and it was decided to form an organization called "Front of Support for Civil Society". He said, [Party] brokers have not yet been able to make a decision to register and formalize their group; Because Mohammad Akhavi considers Mr. [Abdullah] Nouri to be from the left wing and objects to [Mohsen] Nourbakhsh and [Mohammed Ali] Najafi that they have not followed the construction policy that was the slogan of the agents in the economic decisions of the government in their hands, and he also criticizes Mr. [Attaullah] Mohajerani for not supporting Mr. [Gholamohsein] Karbaschi, [Mayor of Tehran] in the recent attacks. He said that they should calculate the price of oil at 17.5 dollars, although it is 16 dollars.

In today's sermons, Ayatollah Khamenei condemned the western media's propaganda about the existence of differences among Iranian officials, as well as the orientation of some officials towards America and the West, as well as the people's turning away from religion. Immediately, the western media brought this up as a document of disagreement between the leadership and the president in relation to the West and America.