Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – March 22, 1986

Fati and Saeed went to Rafsanjan early in the morning. Mehdi and I stayed in Tehran. In order to give a speech at Seyed Razi's seminar, I studied more about him and the rulers of his time.

Mr. Col. Jamali [deputy commander of the army's ground forces] came and reported that last night the army forces in Panjvin recovered part of what they had lost the night before. Among the people around him, [Colonel Sayad Shirazi], the commander of the ground forces, was a complainer, and he considered the weakness of the ground forces to be the result of their actions and the removal of worthy forces, and he considered the remedy to be their removal, and suggested Colonel [Hossein] Hosni Saadi to be the commander of the ground forces.

Faeze called from Rafsanjan. It turned out that he fell to the ground and became unconscious, but he was quickly cured. Asr Efat complained on the phone about some inconsistencies in Mashhad.

I spoke with President [Ayatollah Khamenei] on the phone and said it would be good to talk with Mr. Fahd - the King of Saudi Arabia - on the phone and encourage him to cooperate better with OPEC. It seems that the negotiations of the OPEC conference have progressed and the oil producers are trying to bring the price to the same twenty-eight dollars per barrel, and they know the way to reduce production, and currently the discussion is about the amount of oil production reduction and quotas; It seems that Saudi Arabia does not cooperate sincerely and takes time.

At night, Dr. [Hasan] Rouhani came. We discussed the war. The report of the delegation to the western [front] brought that they demanded punishment for those guilty of retreating from the Chuarta region. On the night, Mohsen Rezaei requested by phone that the Jihad forces move from the north-west front to the south, and Sayad asked them to stay there. We were supposed to decide tomorrow.