Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 9, 1989

After prayer, I did the backlog until half past seven in the morning. I went to the meeting. Before the order, I made a short speech about Ayatollah Khamenei's message and the Mecca disaster. We voted on the resignation of Mr. Sharia Pasand. Out of 195 people present at the meeting, 187 people agreed with his resignation and two abstained. And the rest did not participate in the voting. I stayed in the meeting until half past nine. I returned to my office.

Mr. [Ebrahim] Asgharzadeh [Tehran representative] came. He expressed his satisfaction with the trip with Dr. Velayati. [Brigadier Mohammad Hossein Jalali] Minister of Defense came. He objected to Mr. Behzad Nabavi's trip to the Soviet Union to discuss arms issues. I said that the difference between the IRGC and the army is the reason for this decision. If you agree, we will entrust the work to the military minister. The merger of the two ministries was also discussed; He obeyed.

Mr. [Hossein] Ghazizadeh Hashemi [representative of Sarkhs and Freeman] brought his father to meet. He is an old man and claims to treat with old medicine.

Dr. Velayati came. Reported the trip to Geneva, Yugoslavia and Syria. He defined the positive effects of his trip to the Soviet Union in the positive interactions of others. The Secretary General of the United Nations reacted positively and promised to work for the implementation of the resolution and the withdrawal of Iraqi forces without associating Arvand Roud, and requested that we mutually give him a role in solving Afghanistan's problems. The Yugoslavs insisted on participating in the non-aligned conference and asked for help for the expenses of the conference, and Hafez Assad was influenced by the success of his trip to the Soviet Union. Leaders of Lebanese Islamic and revolutionary groups had come with him and he requested to meet with them.

The representatives of Minab and Bandarlange came and demanded to strengthen the governor and resolve his dispute with the representatives of Bandar Abbas. A group of representatives who formed the independent group in the parliament and there are about sixty people, came and asked to help them in performing their duties. I gave them a detailed explanation. In the evening, the Constitutional Review Council had a meeting for Shursum.

After the meeting, we had a short meeting with Ayatollah Khamenei. Because of his boredom, we canceled tonight's meeting. We decided to advise the Guardian Council to nominate more presidential candidates as competent to make the election more visible. Today, only me and Mr. Dr. [Abbas] Shaibani have been identified as Saleh. Mr. [Mehdi] Karroubi also came. He insisted on this and criticized the Guardian Council for not paying attention to political issues.

I returned to my office. I worked until eight in the evening. Mr. [Hossein] Kamali, the representative of Tehran and the head of the worker's house, came. He asked for permission to advertise in my favor. I agreed to the advertisement without extravagance. Requests for setting up advertising headquarters are regularly received from all over the country, and the answer is that I do not have advertising. I want to rely on the principle of participating in the elections. I came home at night. Chastity had gone to the Imam's grave. He came late and criticized the method of preparation.