Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – June 19, 1981

Early in the morning, Dr. Mansourian came to see Effat. She arranged to have Effat admitted to the hospital tomorrow for surgery. She asked for my help in resolving a problem she had with the Revolutionary Court.

I spent some time going through the papers and documents that had accumulated in the house since the Revolution and sorted and organized them.

Mr. Rezaei from the Revolutionary Guards’ Intelligence Department came and provided a report on the counter-revolutionary activities and on documents obtained from the U.S. Embassy takeover that were against Mr. Bani-Sadr. They had compiled in a booklet the activities of [Shapour] Bakhtiar, Ashraf, Reza [Pahlavi], Farah Pahlavi, [Hassan] Nazih, Oveisi, and [Mohsen] Pezeshkpour, as well as the activities of their agents inside the country. They had sought to coordinate these activities under American direction, but had failed.

At noon, I went to Friday prayers at the university. Mr. Khamenei made good remarks explaining Mr. Bani-Sadr’s crimes and mistakes. At noon, Effat and the children were not at home, so I ate alone the food I had cooked myself and went to sleep.

I was awakened by a phone call from Ahmad Agha, who brought up the same issue concerning the film. Mrs. Golnari called and said that Captain Azarin from Abu Zar Garrison reported that a new decision not to discharge soldiers whose terms of service had ended had caused discontent. Although the decision had been made during Bani-Sadr’s time, it had been communicated after his departure and was being blamed on others. It had been proposed that, to provide manpower for the fronts, the sensible decision would be to give each soldier a monthly wartime-duty allowance of 2,500 tomans, in addition to their benefits and salary; this would be better than recalling former soldiers.

In the afternoon, I played some table tennis with the guards. Early in the evening, the officials of Nikan School came and gave a report on the school’s situation and brought Mehdi’s report card. He had passed with an average of 17.5; that is good.

Then Mr. Fakhruddin Hejazi came and gave a report on his trip to India and complained that his report had not been broadcast on the radio.

Revolutionary Guards officials came and reported the Guards’ success in Bandar Abbas in suppressing the terrorists, and consulted about presenting the documents from the U.S. Embassy takeover concerning Bani-Sadr in Parliament.