Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 11, 1994

Yemen's civil war, unfortunately, continues. I packed the suitcase for tomorrow's trip. [Mr. Diordiger and Souda Sonoro], the French and Indonesian ambassadors, came to say goodbye at the end of their mission. I gave warnings to the French ambassador about the unfriendly actions of his country.

The administrators of Islamic Azad University came. Dr. [Abdullah] Jasbi, [President of Islamic Azad University] reported. I spoke encouragingly to them and promised more help and fulfillment of their wishes for the development, deepening and upgrading of the university.

Mr. [Syed Mohammad] Mirmohammadi, [Secretary General of the Administrative and Employment Affairs Organization of the country], came to plan the reform of the organizational structure. Dr. Manouchehr Farhang, along with Mr. [Abu Talib] Shalchian, [President's Economic Adviser] came. In a hurry, he wanted time to present an economic plan that would have a lot of income. He is one of the bony economics professors of the university. He suggested that, in order to raise the price of oil, we should unilaterally and decisively announce that we intend to stop the export of oil because it is cheap; It was claimed that the breath of this announcement will increase the price by one or two dollars. When I pointed out its possible consequences regarding the concern of the domestic centers about currency cuts and hoarding of goods, reducing the consumption of raw materials in factories, and losing good oil customers abroad, etc.; There was no correct answer.

Dr. Velayati came in the evening. He reported on his trip to Bosnia and asked for permission to cooperate with Türkiye on the new issues of Iraqi Kurdistan. reported that the designers of the federation for Bosnia and Croatia are trying to eliminate Mr. Izat Begovic.

I attended the meeting of the government board. Then I went to Vahdat Hall for the closing ceremony of the press festival. Engineer [Mustafa] Mirslim, [Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance], gave a speech and Dr. [Sidkamal] Hajsidjavadi reported. I also gave a speech and gave serious warnings to the press about weakening the morale of the people by discouraging the people and making the enemies happy, by exaggerating the shortcomings and ignoring the progress, and I also said about the superficial interpretation of the content and the existence of contradictions in the positions.

I completed the office work for the trip. On the way home, at Hamshirezadeh's house, I asked Mr. Mohammad Sharifian, our son-in-law, how he was doing because of a partial stroke. The father is a martyr.