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Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – March 9, 1997

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For the 100th anniversary of Seyyed Jamaluddin Asadabadi's death, I went from home to Hosseinieh Al-Zahra (PBUH). Before the start of the meeting, Mr. Roger Garaudy, a French thinker who recently converted to Islam, came. We negotiated. He is the guest of the meeting. He gave me a book and said, because of this book, one

For the 100th anniversary of Seyyed Jamaluddin Asadabadi's death, I went from home to Hosseinieh Al-Zahra (PBUH). Before the start of the meeting, Mr. Roger Garaudy, a French thinker who recently converted to Islam, came. We negotiated. He is the guest of the meeting. He gave me a book and told me that he was sentenced to a year in prison for this book and he is writing another book that is against America and making a lot of noise. I accepted Mohsen was our translator. He was sitting next to me in the meeting.

After the welcome of Mr. [Mohammed] Waezzadeh [Khorasani, President of the Association of Islamic Religions], with his various reports, I gave a detailed speech to open the meeting and analyzed the personality and struggles of Seyyed Jamal, and I raised questions and asked that they be included in the research agenda at the meeting, including the executive thesis of Seyyed Jamal to implement

What were his thoughts?

I went to my office. Mr. [Mohammed Reza] Al-Barazi, our ambassador in Switzerland, came and appealed for the release of a Swiss person who was recently arrested and accused of espionage because he has American citizenship, and said, Switzerland's behavior towards us is good, we should not upset them; Especially after the release of the South African citizen who was with him, it is difficult to continue detaining this person.

Dr. [Mohammed Ali] Najafi, [Minister of Education] came and asked for the budget needs of the Ministry of Education; Although he received 250 billion tomans for this year's budget deficit, he wants another 22 billion tomans. He criticized the harmful actions of parliamentarians and discussed the decision of the [party] agents [construction] in the [presidential] elections.

Managers and representatives of the medical system organization from all over the country came. They brought me a certificate of appreciation from the medical society. Dr. [Shehabuddin] Sadr, [Head of the Medical System Organization], gave a report and I gave a detailed talk on the duties and services of doctors and the medical system and gave explanations about medical progress.

By five o'clock in the afternoon, I was done. Then I had an interview with Mike Dallas, a famous and experienced American journalist, [CBS TV network]; It was long. I answered all his questions. It was not bad. He was mostly looking for a solution to start negotiations between Iran and America, but he didn't get anything.

After Maghrib prayer, we recorded Nowruz message for Iranians abroad. In the evening, Dr. Velayati [Minister of Foreign Affairs] came. We arranged the delivery of invitation letters for heads of Islamic countries. There was talk about the [presidential] election; would like to be raised. By 9:30 PM, I did the work and came home.

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