Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – March 14, 1990

A group of Qom Basiji fighters and a group of members of the Islamic student community came. The son of martyr [Syedgholamreza] Saeedi spoke from the first group and a student from the second group. I also spoke for them. The head of Japan's economic delegation came. Seventy commercial companies are industrial and have come to study the fields of cooperation in construction. He expressed satisfaction and I encouraged them to be more active.

The Supreme Council of Urban Development had a meeting. New cities around Tehran, Shiraz, Tabriz and Mashhad were in order. It did not get enough votes from the members present in the meeting, but it was approved by including the members outside the meeting who signed later. Opponents mostly relied on the priority of organizing the existing city of Tehran or the need to review a more complete plan.

In the evening, the government board had a meeting. The physical balance of the program was discussed; Construction materials and engineering, industrial and transportation machinery. Regarding metal materials, it turned out that for 1369, we need three and a half million tons of all kinds of products, which are produced domestically, two and a half million tons. We also lack at least two million tons of cement, if we produce 17 million tons. Some ministers expressed dissatisfaction with the budget changes in the parliament. I stayed in my office at night.