Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi - March 23, 2002

At the mourning ceremony [of Muharram in the office] of the Supreme Leader, Mr. Moqtadaei criticized the state of the judiciary and said that by giving space to the young judges who surrendered, they had offended the veteran judges, and Mr. Hashemi Shahroudi informed them that they had activated the Petropars case.

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I was at home until 3 p.m., studying. Effat also traveled to Rafsanjan to participate in the annual mourning ceremonies held by the Marashi family in Aliabad Kashkuyeh. I also went to my office.

 After the Maghrib prayer, I participated in the mourning ceremony [of Muharram in the office] of the Supreme Leader. He also participated in the ceremony even though his pain has been renewed. After listening to Mr. [Kazem] Seddiqi's speech, I came home. At the meeting, I was seated between Mr. [Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi] Shahroudi, [Head of the Judiciary], and [Morteza] Moqtadaei, [former Prosecutor General]. Mr. Moqtadaei criticized the state of the judiciary and said that by giving the field to young judges who surrendered, they had offended the veteran judges, and Mr. Hashemi informed that they had activated the Petropars case.  

In Afghanistan, after five years of the Taliban's suspension of Nowruz celebrations, a large number of celebrations have been held and the school year has started with a shortage of schools, tools, and teachers, and the United States has taken over the preparation of textbooks and banned the books that Iran has given to their schools. [U.S. President] Bush and his wife have also taken steps to meet the needs of students in order to deceive the people, and the presence of girls in schools is also new, given the Taliban's ban.  

Although the Israeli government had announced that it would not take retaliatory action against the Palestinians, today it has martyred a number of people in large-scale attacks on the people. Many people in Arab countries have called on Arab leaders not to compromise at the Beirut summit, but to support the intifada.  

The mother of a martyr who became very famous for broadcasting the film "Farewell to her Son" before the martyrdom attempt that killed five Zionists, said in a message to the Arab Summit: "I don't want anything from you, we just expect you to let the Intifada continue, because a stone thrown by a Palestinian child at Israeli tanks has a greater impact than your conferences."