Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – January 28, 1987

After prayer, exercise and breakfast, I came to the assembly. I read the reports and heard from the front. On the front last night, we have repelled a heavy attack from the enemy. TV C. B. The United States broadcasts my interview with advertisements in order to take advantage of their internal disputes and attract more viewers. [Ronald] Reagan and [George] Schultz have also said things from a position of weakness.

Mr. Mahdinejad came. He brought the Bible signed by Reagan and sent by Ali Hashemi's brother as a sign of goodwill to be used in today's interview.

Bishop Terry Waite, the envoy of the Canterbury Church - who usually goes to Lebanon to solve the hostage problem - and also one of the Saudi agents was kidnapped in Lebanon and said that he had been informed that the deputy head of NATO was told to remove the Iranian bombing plan from the archive. It is possible that the news leak is intentional and to intimidate us, but it is significant. Especially with the recent threats of Reagan and Shultz and [Henry] Kissinger and the increased American presence in the Persian Gulf. He was supposed to go to Lebanon.

We had interviews with domestic and foreign journalists. It was very important and magnificent. Almost all important issues were raised. I found it useful. We presented the Bible donated by Reagan.

In the afternoon, Mr. Rafiq Dost and Dr. Rouhani came for war, purchases, and defense matters. In the evening, we had a meeting of the chairmanship of the parliament. It was decided to close the parliament in the decade of Fajr in order for the representatives to get to the issues of war and sending troops and the problems of bombardment of cities, as well as to be cautious because of the possibility of bombing the parliament - which is a clear goal.

We were the guests of Mr. Mousavi Ardabili on the night of the heads of state. The issues related to the hostages in Lebanon, as well as the seized Kuwait ship, Mr. Velayati's trip to Russia to warn about the delivery of the MiG-29 to Iraq, and the possibility of America bombing Iran were discussed and consulted. Mr. [Ayatollah] Khamenei gave orders to the IRGC regarding the delivery of the army's Scorpion tanks, and about the new commander of the [army] air force, who was to be chosen as Mr. Colonel [Mansour] Sattari.

I reached home at fifteen minutes past ten. At eleven o'clock in Tehran, red status was announced and anti-aircraft guns worked. It turned out that it was not an attack and Qom was attacked at that time. The Haq missile site on the southern front was damaged today, which is a pity. Iraq today

He had severe attacks that were repelled.