Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – March 29, 1990

I woke up at half past seven in the morning. In foreign reports, the discovery of a gang smuggling nuclear bomb fuses to Iraq in London is at the top of the news. I arrived at the office. Mr. [Hossein] Mahluji, [Minister of Mines and Metals] came; He is going to Italy. He consulted for the discussed topics. I told him to stress that the delivery of ships to Iraq before the completion of peace is not acceptable.

Mr. [Akbar] Turkan, [Defense Minister] came. He reported and consulted on several lawsuits with foreigners that are pending in the [International Court of Arbitration] in The Hague, including the Bell Company regarding the manufacture of helicopters and the formation of a company with Pakistan for the manufacture of helicopters.

Mr. [Mahdi] Karroubi, [Chairman of the Islamic Council] came to visit Nowruz. We discussed political and economic issues. He said that he guessed that the issue of [George] Bush's phone, [President of the United States], was with the Chinese introduction of some radicals. He said on the phone in the evening, America's Time magazine wrote the same thing.

In the evening Timsar [Mansour] Sattari, [Army Air Force Commander] came. He gave the report of military flights in the service of ordinary passengers and applied for the purchase of aircraft factory equipment. Mr. Jalil Besharti, [Head of the Underprivileged Areas Office of the Presidential Institution] came and asked for the affairs of the underprivileged areas. Timsar [Mustafa] Tarabi [Pour], [Commander of Army Intelligence Protection] came and reported the trip to Pakistan. I came home after breaking the fast.