Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – June 12, 1996

From home, we went to Shahryar, for the opening of [Laleh Computer Company], a compact disc (CD) production factory built by the Ministry of Information. Mr. [Ali] Fallahian, [Information Minister] was also there. He explained on the way. It is the first production unit of this new product in the country with five million dollars and seven billion rials and a construction period of 13.5 months. They said that only Israel has it in the Middle East and there is a second-hand unit in Türkiye. We heard the explanations and visited, and after Mr. Fallahian's welcome, I gave an encouraging speech in the audience. We also visited the factory under the construction of medicine capsules.

Then we went to Mohammad Abad Karaj, for the ceremony of starting the operation of two thousand production and service projects, which were built by Jihad-Fazonggi at a cost of about thirty billion tomans. Mr. Faruzesh, [Minister of Construction Jihad] explained and I gave an encouraging speech for the many works of Jihad in the villages in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, livestock, electricity and water. It was broadcast directly on national TV. Then we visited the important unit for preparing premium embryos from male Holstein cows. With one hundred bulls, about one million embryos to produce

And they prepare cow genitalia. We visited the program on how to stimulate bulls and take semen and freeze it and sell it to cattle farms and the cattle keeping hall.

I went to my office and did the work. During the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, it had a meeting with many resolutions.