Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – January 23, 1997

The managers of the social security organization came. They had set up an exhibition of construction and investment works. We visited Dr. [Alireza] Marandi, [Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education] and [Mehdi] Karbasian, [Head of the Social Security Organization] reported. I gave the second degree of merit to Mr. Karbasian and the certificate of appreciation to three managers. I spoke encouragingly about the Social Security Organization; They cover a third of the society and a significant part of hospitals and pharmaceutical and home appliance industries and tiles and other industries.

Akhvi Mohammad, [executive vice president] came. He gave the report of the trip to France to examine the status of the satellites to choose one of them, as well as a trip to the UAE and three-hour talks with Sheikh Zayed, [the president of the United Arab Emirates] and the appointment of their foreign minister to Iran and about the [presidential] elections and the idea of ​​his own candidacy - which I did not consider appropriate; He doesn't think it's good either - and the issue of buying and making mobile phones was also discussed.

Mr. Mirzadeh, [Head of the Program and Budget Organization], came with Mr. [Ahmed] Shafaat, [Head of the Country Mapping Organization]. They complained about the harassment of the General Staff of the Armed Forces regarding mapping. Program and budget issues and current needs and management of the educational center of the program organization were discussed.

Dr. [Abdullah] Jasbi, [President of Islamic Azad University] came. He complained to the minister and the deputies of the [Ministry of Culture and] Higher Education because of the measures regarding the restriction of the Islamic Azad University and [said] the possibility of his candidacy for the presidency, and also to solve the problem of land outside the limits of Tehran [= the fence in the northwest of Tehran], for construction, he appealed to [Mr. Gholam Hossein Karbaschi], the mayor, on the phone to help me and I also told him to solve the financial problem of Dr. Yazdi, the son-in-law of Martyr Motahari, by destroying his shop. has suffered

In the evening, at the meeting of the government board, we approved a one-year deadline for high school graduates to continue working to go to university and belatedly join the army. At night, the bodyguards and family members were my guests for iftar. I spoke to them briefly. I did the work until nine o'clock at night.