Last night, at 8:00 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time, the attack on Serbia began. Dozens of sensitive sites were struck with bombs and missiles, and two American B-52 aircraft, which are undetectable by radar, also took part in the attack.
Last night, at 8:00 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time, the attack on Serbia began. Dozens of sensitive sites were struck with bombs and missiles, and two American B-52 aircraft, which are undetectable by radar, also took part in the attack. Eight countries, the United States, Britain, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Canada, announced that they were participating in the operation.
Russia recalled its representative to NATO; China, India, and Mexico also opposed the attack. The United Nations Security Council meeting ended without reaching any decision. The UN Secretary-General, while endorsing the principle of the operation, said that it should have been coordinated with the Security Council. Serbia claimed that it had shot down two NATO aircraft, but this has not been confirmed.
World public opinion, given the violence committed by the Serbs in Bosnia and Kosovo, is not opposed to NATO’s action. Islamic countries, including Iran, are also satisfied because the Kosovo Albanians are oppressed Muslims and there is concern about a repetition of the history of Bosnia. Although, outwardly, they will oppose the military attack.
The news of the decision by OPEC and four other countries, Russia, Norway, Oman, and Mexico, to reduce oil production is among the major news stories and has so far added several dollars to the price of oil. If properly implemented, it will correct oil prices. The oil-producing countries appear serious. This has been my proposal since last year, and I recently presented it with supporting arguments at the Friday prayers in Tehran. Saudi Arabia did not expect the price of oil to fall this far.
The High Court of the House of Lords in Britain issued a new ruling concerning [Augusto] Pinochet, [former president of Chile], stipulating that only charges relating to the period after 1986 would be subject to trial and allowing him to be extradited to Spain. With this ruling, both opponents and supporters have achieved part of what they wanted.
Three people from Al-Hoda Publishing came. They have established a center in Kish for global activities aimed at introducing and promoting Iranian culture and the Revolution, and said that their exhibition, which is currently open, has received a good response. They asked me to tell the [Kish Development Organization] to support them.
At noon, Malakeh, my maternal niece, and a number of relatives were guests. They had come to Kish for the marriage of her son, Mohammad, to the daughter of Hossein Salari, another maternal niece. Malakeh is the mother of a martyr and is in good spirits. I spoke with Mohsen for a while about the country’s political circumstances and various possibilities for the future of the Revolution. I said that the leadership can contain the situation and ...
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