Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – January 27, 1990

I woke up at six in the morning. I got the domestic and foreign news; We did not have an important problem. I walked a little on the beach in front of the residence. Mehdi was explaining about Kish beach. We reached the king's palace.

The curator of the palace renovation project, who rented it for the International Trade Office, gave an explanation. He said that he spends 600 million tomans and rents 12 million tomans a month to the Kish Development Organization and hopes to make a good profit. The lease is for five years. His workers expressed their feelings. The son of Fatemeh Khanum Magharbi, a former employee of Refah School, was among its employees. He came and introduced himself.

We returned to the residence. After breakfast, we left to visit the works in progress of the island. We saw the palm groves under construction, and they said that eight thousand palms have been planted so far. I also planted a palm tree.

Then, a factory was visited to make cement bricks under pressure, which was interesting and innovative. Then we visited the plan of another commercial complex that the private sector implements around the Crown Palace with 80,000 square meters of land, for the construction of residential, commercial and recreational centers, with 17,000 square meters of infrastructure, with heavy rent. I was surprised by the trust they have shown and invest so much.

We visited the Fath El Mobin store and the Paris market, then the Kish village where the natives live and the old market of Deh. Then I spoke a little to the people in the mosque.

I visited another commercial residential complex that the private sector is building with 200 villas, 200 commercial centers, and 200 warehouses with power plants, desalination plants, and other needs. If they bring prefabricated materials from abroad, they have an investment of about one billion tomans and they claim that they will finish by the middle of 2019.

Lunch and rest were done at the residence until three in the afternoon. Then we went from Kish to Bandar Abbas with official ceremonies, and from the airport we went to Qeshm Island by helicopter to see the pier and water intake built by Mr. Masoudi. They have a dispute with the oil company and the Ministry of Energy. Then we flew from Bandar Abbas airport to Tehran and arrived at half past seven and came home. On the plane, we reviewed Mr. Masoudi's initiatives regarding the construction of a dock and an offshore drilling platform; Some do not accept its practicality.