Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – March 27, 1988

I woke up Mohsen early in the morning for prayer. informed that Yasser came last night at three in the morning. He was injured, his leg and hand were hit by shrapnel. I told my office to reserve a place for him in the hospital. I woke up Yasser at a quarter past eight. He came up from the basement with a cane. He is not bad. He told the story of the operation and his injury.

At 10:30 p.m. on Friday the 4th of Farvardin, along with a battalion from the 10th division of Seyyed al-Shohda (a.s.), they left Darbandikhan dam towards Shah Surmer by boat. They were still on the water when the enemy noticed the attack and opened fire on the boats, but they reached the shore safely and climbed the height and captured the peak that they were in charge of capturing. Then from there, they supported another unit that was supposed to occupy the nearby peak with fire, which lasted until noon and then captured the height and captured sixty Iraqi soldiers and handed them over to the Yasir company to bring them to the rear of the front, and those who were line breakers, handed over their positions to the defense company and went back.

After crossing the water, they were bombarded by Iraqi planes, and a number of them, including Yasir and Amir Mehdi Mousavi, were injured, and they were taken to the relief center, where they were bandaged and sent to the West [=Kermanshah]. In Bakhtran, they were bandaged again and each of them was given 250 tomans and they were released to go to Tehran. They themselves came to Tehran by bus and arrived at the [south] terminal of Tehran at one o'clock in the morning and came home by renting a taxi in the amount of two hundred and fifty tomans. He spoke on the phone with Eft and the children in Rafsanjan so that they don't get upset after hearing the news.

Mr. Jalal took Yaser and Amir Mehdi to Labafinejad Hospital and informed them in the afternoon that they were hospitalized and Mr. Mazini who was also injured was taken to them. Mr. Mohammadreza Rajabi, my office worker, who was superficially chemically treated, was also taken to the hospital.

I went to the parliament. I read the reports. I warned Mr. Emami Kashani [guardian council member] about speeding up the appointment of representatives whose qualifications have been rejected.

A group of fighters from the 6th Special Guards Brigade came, I spoke for them. Dr. [Abdullah] Jasbi [President of Islamic Azad University] came and told his problems with the Ministry of Culture and Higher Education. Mr. [Ataullah] Fadaeli [Semiram's representative] came; He complained about the agents of the Ministry of Interior. [Mr. Seyed Ali Hosseini Tash] the deputy commander of the IRGC Navy came. He said the report on the status of the force and the needs. He complains about the non-cooperation of the navy and the army. Mr. Fakheri came from Geneva and said things to strengthen the foreign policy of the war.

I worked in the office from the evening until the evening. Mr. [Reza] Amrollahi [head of the Atomic Energy Organization] claims to have obtained the technique of preparing heavy water and wants funds.

Mr. Ghasemi came. He said from his observations in Halabja and he had suggestions about allocating more facilities to the IRGC forces that regularly operate, and he is upset that we are giving a lot of budget to the army.

I came home at night. Mohsen, who had gone to the hospital to see Yasser, came and said that he is fine. He had seen Iraq's missiles today. We have placed watchtowers in some places that inform when they see the missiles so that the red status is announced before the missile hits and the defense is ready. They did not see and without announcing the red situation, the missile hit.