Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – January 5, 1987

I did work and read reports in my office until nine o'clock in the morning. Mr. Dr. [Moussa] Zargar came. He said the importance of Sinai Hospital and demanded the delivery of the building of the Ministry of Education. This building has been handed over to Sinai Hospital by the Revolutionary Council. Dr. Mohammadzadeh and Dr. Laleh came from the professors of Shahid Beheshti University. [My daughter] Fati is their student and has taken time for them. They told about the problems of planning and influence of non-revolutionaries.

Mr. Bahrami came from the Hague court. He is worried about double citizenship cases. He complained about the lack of work of the office and Mr. Iftikhar Jahrami and is worried about the future of the court. Mr. Riyazi came. He gave a report on military purchases. Mr. Turkan came. He reported on the project of modernizing and producing chemical defense equipment and the progress of the rocket and ammunition manufacturing. He asked for more currency and rials. Mr. Rafiq Dost came to get more money for the war.

Akhvi Mohammad [head of the Radio and Television Organization] came and asked for a quota from the war currency for the reconstruction of radio and television facilities damaged in the war. Mr. [Gholamabas] Zari came for the issue of travel currency for the delegates. Mr. Safaei came and told the situation in the West.

In the evening Mr. Ray Shahri came. He said that he wrote a letter to the imam and suggested that Seyyed Hadadi [Hashmi, the son-in-law of Ayatollah Montazeri] be exiled to one of the distant cities and be under surveillance. My opinion is that the mission should be given to one of the foreign countries - for example, by the Ministry of Guidance.

I went home at night. Kazem - Hamshirezadeh - and Hossein Agha Marashi [my wife's brother] came for other people's work.