Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – June 3, 1984

In the morning, I visited the Majlis dentist. The doctor examined my teeth; It needs some work. I was supposed to visit after the holy month of Ramadan. A group of students under the training of the Ministry of Energy came with Dr. [Hasan] Ghafourid. [The Minister of Energy] gave a report and I also spoke about the necessity of training the workforce for scientific and technical self-sufficiency and criticizing the many facilities of the country.

Mr. [Hossein] Taj Gurdon came to Holland as our ambassador. He gave a report on the situation of the [Hague] court and the counter-revolutionary attack on the Iranian embassy in the Netherlands. Some of the former parliamentarians came; They were upset that the credentials of their rivals were approved in the second parliament. The secretaries of the commissions came and there was talk about the increase and inflation of manpower in the parliament staff and the unemployment of the secretaries; We decided to think about this. They say, one secretary is too much for one commission. One of the parliament's public relations staff - who has been dismissed - filed a complaint. Mr. Khoshnovisan said about the small amount of the parliament's budget for the approvals of the board of directors, about helping the former representatives and that they do not have a place [to work].

[Mr. Mohammad Gharegi] The oil minister informed that a Turkish oil tanker that was going to Khark Island was attacked by the Iraqis, and the president said that in this case, we have ordered to retaliate.

I asked the Minister of Oil about the cancellation of the license to discover and extract oil in Greenland - which he had informed - they said it was cancelled. But he said that a Swiss company is willing to buy it for several times [the price].

In the evening, Mr. [Asadullah] Lajordi [Tehran Revolutionary Prosecutor] and IRGC intelligence officials came. In order to coordinate information work, the problem is that the Tehran Prosecutor's Office does information work. After long negotiations, it was decided to coordinate [intelligence affairs] by [forming] a joint committee. In the evening, I did not attend the [Islamic Republic] party meeting and came home after breaking the fast. I slept early at night.