Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – March 10, 1996

I went from home to Shemiranat governorate to visit the counting of election funds. They were surprised. I went without prior notice, but they were very happy. Their work was very neat. Most of the funds had been read and arranged in sheets. I saw the results of the votes of Lavasanat, Loizan, Kamraniyeh, Qaytiyereh, Fereshte Mosque, National University [= Shahid Beheshti], Tajrish Square, Niavaran and Jamaran. In general, in most cases, the list of the fighting clergy community was slightly ahead of the brokers, but our Fazeh vote was the most in most cases; Except in Qaitariya, Tajrish and Lavasanat.

Then I went to the election headquarters of the Ministry of Interior. There was no minister and deputy and no one who could give an adequate answer. Then I casually went to Alborz High School. There, too, the situation was similar to that of Shemiran. We saw the program of sending statistics by computer to the Ministry of Interior. High school students were also very happy and expressed enthusiastic feelings. Mohsen and Mehdi were also there.

I went to my office. The market regulation headquarters had a meeting. We had an unfinished discussion about removing some goods from the list of sanctions. Election reports across the country are close to being completed; Both groups claim to have the majority. In the evening Mr. [Ali Mohammad] Basharti, [the country's minister] came. To maintain my trust and clear the doubt that has arisen, he talked a lot. He has not paid attention to Faeza's rightful wishes and has shown a preference for one side. He expressed satisfaction that the parliament was divided into two almost equal groups. He said, this situation is better for the government. Again, he insisted on accepting the successor after the end of the presidential term.

For the first time, they announced part of the results of the counting of votes in Tehran; Mr. Natiq Nouri first and Faezeh second were announced: with a difference of 400 votes. According to some people, they deliberately read at this stage that the first notification should be the speaker of the first parliament; Although this evening, Mr. [Hossein] Marashi went to the governor's office and saw the work flow. He believes that the process is healthy and soon whatever the reality is, it will become clear. Although he doesn't think it is unlikely, for this purpose, this section was chosen for the announcement, but I know that they were supposed to read it tonight and they did it with my emphasis. They had already arranged to read when we reached 30% of the votes.