Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 12, 1987

On the way to the parliament, I visited the implementation of the metro project. I visited the Abbas Abad region, which uses the open trench method - excavating and rebuilding - and the Qurkhaneh region, which is the central workshop, and tunnels are dug with an excavator. The machine is still not working smoothly, but the engineers are gradually mastering it. They do not have foreign experts.

I didn't participate in the [Parliament] session to deal with the war and miscellaneous matters. I did an interview about the Tehran subway with Sedavasima. I spoke with Mr. Abdullah Nouri [Chairman of the Parliament's Program and Budget Commission] about the financial needs of projects in the front and broadcasting, and with Mr. Agha Mohammadi about the quality of employment of Iraqi Muslim Kurds and their coordination with the Supreme Council of the Iraqi Revolution.

In the afternoon, Mr. Qazvini, Ayatollah Montazeri's representative in America, arrived. He gave a report on the situation of the Muslims there and the need for preaching and asked for the help of the Mustafafan Foundation.

In the evening, the officials of Maragheh institutions came. They complained about the representative of Maragheh in the parliament. Mr. [Akbar] Turkan and Mr. [Hossein] Nili came. They gave a report on Sasad's successes, especially in the electronics sector. Mr. [Syed Ahmed] Zargar, the prosecutor [of the fight against] drugs, came and criticized the limitation of the death penalty for traffickers.

The officials of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Ansar group of the families of the fighters came. They said that they found the body of one of Mashhad's fighters in the Ramadan operation five years ago, recently after the Karbala 5 operation, which was fresh. I spoke for them. A group of Jihad officials came to Gilan. They complained about the dismissal of Mr. Qane, the head of Jihad Gilan. I spoke for them and invited them to unite and work.

Mr. [Mohsen] Kongerlo [advisor to the prime minister] came and said things from [Manochehr] Ghorbanifar that he still hasn't given up and wants to mediate in France and Germany. He also brought past documents.

The night of the meeting of the heads of the forces was in the office of Mr. Mousavi Ardabili [head of the judiciary]. The president raised the demand of Mr. Sadegh Tabatabai regarding the costs of his trial in Germany, on the charge of transporting opium. He wants about two million marks. It was decided to investigate.

It was discussed about sending Mr. Kongerlo for weapons procurement issues and it was decided to proceed with the approval of the advisory group. There was a discussion about forcing the exporters to deliver their values ​​to the bank at a price of 35 tomans per dollar. It was decided to be discussed in the government board. Ahmad Agha raised the issue of the release of Mr. Seyed Hadi Hashemi from exile; The release is supposed to be conditional. I got home very late.