Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – March 31, 1996

I went to my office. It is quiet due to the stagnation of the offices between the past and future holidays. I read the reports. After the annulment of the Isfahan and Malayer elections, there has been a lot of concern about the Guardian Council's actions regarding the elections, and Mr. Habibi, [First Vice President and member of the Guardian Council] also expressed his concern, unlike the previous day. I wanted to talk to the scholars of the Shura; Not all of them were in Tehran.

Before noon, they brought the movie "Meeting", I watched it. It is one of the products of the field of art. It is a good movie. A girl from a Christian family is related to a Muslim boy and then gets married. By converting a girl to Islam, both freedom and logic are interesting. Finally, with the encouragement of his wife, the husband goes to war and is captured, and his wife manages the organization of her husband's flower production well, and the husband is released later. The Ministry of Guidance narrowly banned the film; I think he should be released. I also gave a coin to [Mr. Mohammad Reza Artman], the director.

I went home in the evening and read the book The Story of Civilization - A Brief History of Will Durant until the end of the night. Mehdi and Fereshte came at night and brought sandwiches for dinner. We spoke on the phone with modesty. He went to the doctors and was given a trial medicine for one month. They decided to return to Tehran.