Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi - March 9, 2003

• Visiting the new building of the Relief Committee and listening to the report of Seyyed Reza Nayeri
  The report of Sheikh Abbas Ali Alizadeh, the Head of the Judiciary of Tehran Province, on his decision to listen to and perceive Abbas Abdi's remorse as unrealistic, and to consult on the selection of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Tehran with the revival of the prosecutor's offices, and the issue of the disciplinary conviction of Judge Saeed Mortazavi, the head of Branch 1410 of the Tehran Public Court and the main choice of the Tehran Prosecutor's Office.
  Mohsen Nourbakhsh's consultation to solve the problem of foreign borrowing and Seyyed Mohammad Khatami's telephone follow-up

Full text of the diary:

We went to the Imam Relief Committee's university in Sohanak [northeast of Tehran]. They have sold thirteen of their locations inside Tehran and built large buildings on an area of 100,000 square meters, and they have brought in an additional 30 billion tomans. From the exhibition of the works of handicrafts of the people covered by the committee, the library, etc. We visited.

Mr. [Seyyed Reza] Nayeri, [head of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee], said that the building of the research institute was built with the help of Fati [the head of the Special Diseases Foundation], who invited women from foreign missions in Iran and helped them. At the ceremony, they reported on the managers and rescuers who have excelled in self-sufficiency. I also spoke.

Mr. [Abbas Ali] Alizadeh, the Head of the Judiciary of Tehran, came and said that it was clear from the eavesdropping that Abbas Abdi's expression of remorse was not correct [in the case of the Future Poll Institute].

They wanted to release him for this reason, but they realized their mistake. He consulted about the Tehran Prosecutor, who must be selected with the implementation of the new law.
He said that Nasser [Vaez] Tabasi and his co-defendants have been acquitted in court, but some people are against the announcement of the verdict and are worried about the atmosphere created by the reformist press. complains about the six-month suspension sentence of Judge [Saeed] Mortazavi [the head of Branch 1413 of the Special General Court for the Press]. Mr. [Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi] Shahroudi, [the head of the judiciary], has not yet been able to do anything for him.

Dr. [Mohsen] Nourbakhsh, [the head of the Central Bank] came. In order to solve the problem that may arise in the Expediency Council, for some clauses of foreign borrowing [in the 2003 budget bill], he said. Mr. [Seyyed Mohammad] Khatami, [the President], also asked for the issue of the Guardian Council's budget to be resolved by agreement with the government and not by the decision of the Assembly.

Tonight, the Security Council is meeting behind closed doors to consider the U.S. proposal. Claire Short, Britain's Minister for Development, has resigned from the Cabinet in protest at Britain's war policy. Several deputy ministers have also announced that they will resign. [Former U.S. President] Jimmy Carter has also declared that [George] Bush's war policy has damaged America's standing in the world.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the leader of the Turkish Justice and Development Party (AKP), has been elected in the mid-term elections, and Abdullah Gul is supposed to resign and become prime minister. The sessions of the Pakistani parliament are tense in the discussion of how to deal with the issue of Iraq.
Last night, a 4.1 magnitude earthquake occurred in Tehran.