Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – June 3, 1989

After the morning prayer, I visited the [Qalb Jamaran] hospital and went to the Majlis from there. In the reports, there is no news of foreigners knowing about the Imam's bad condition. I did office work.

Mr. Behzad Nabavi [Minister of Heavy Industries] came. He was worried about the possibility of his impeachment in the parliament regarding the Saipa case. The report was submitted by the relevant commission to the investigation and investigation of Article 76 of the Parliament and suggested impeachment. He asked for time to answer the report.

At noon, we were guests of the president with other members of the [Constitutional] Revision Council. There was a discussion about hastening the completion of the revision of the constitution, because it seems that with the current situation of the Imam, we have little time and it is better that the reforms are approved by the Imam. It was agreed that from now on we will work together and have a meeting in the evening.

I went to my office. At three o'clock in the afternoon, Ahmad Agha informed by phone that the Imam's condition has worsened and he wanted us to go to Jamaran with the other commanders. As a result, the meeting was not actually held and we rushed to Jamaran.

The last moments of breathing were normal. Imam was breathing hard. They opened and closed their eyes only once and that was their last look. Doctors hastily activated the heart with massage and electric shock, and the battery and lungs with artificial respiration. They kept him like this until 10:20 p.m., but his brain stopped working. They informed only once that breathing became normal, but this situation ended soon.

In the meantime, there was a consultation about the quality of news announcements and plans of the country's administration and leadership selection. We contacted Mr. [Mohsen] Rezaei at the front and I ordered full preparation. He asked for helicopters and airplanes. We sent the order.

We summoned the experts by telephone to the [parliament] members to reach Tehran by tomorrow morning. We decided to postpone the death announcement until the day after tomorrow; That is, after the election of the leader and the return of the expert representatives to the cities. With the announcement of the Imam's ceremony, Shion got up from inside the house and the hospital and then outside the house. I invited the audience to wait and explained the program to them. They accepted and calmed down and it was decided to cry as a supplication. The patience of Beit ladies was interesting for us.

We stayed until 12 o'clock at night to adjust the plans. I came home and fell asleep with a sedative. Efat, Fati and Mohsen understood because they were in the hospital, but the rest of the family members did not know.