Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 14, 1985

After prayer and exercise, I went to the assembly. I saw in the reports that Iraq claims to have hit a ship in the Persian Gulf, but the news is not true. The amendment of the arable land plan was on the agenda of the parliament, a part of it was amended, and we had disturbing encounters from some representatives, and the bill to intensify the punishment of financial abuses was approved in the first round. During the meeting and before, I had many references from the representatives.

Mr. Sayad [Shirazi] came in the afternoon. He almost reached a dead end in the implementation of his plan and was looking for a solution. Ahmad's brother came from Rafsanjan; They are going to the front with a group of [Cos] employees. They talked about the disturbance of Rafsanjan's environment [organization] about Sarcheshme staff town and our father's house in Behrman Nog.

Mr. [Gholamreza] Aghazadeh, advisor to the Prime Minister, came. He informed that North Korea has also offered to sell long-range surface-to-surface and air-to-surface missiles. In the evening Mr. Hijazi, Deputy Minister of Information, came and gave a report on the activities abroad.

In the Tuesday meeting of the representatives, I explained the reason for my trip abroad. In the meeting of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, a decision was made about the criteria and method of selecting university professors and the president of the University of Sistan and Baluchistan was also elected. At night, in a meeting with the presence of the Prime Minister and the President, we discussed the war and cooperation between the IRGC and the army, and [Mr. Seyyed Mohammad Khatami] the Minister of [Islamic] Guidance will provide six million Tomans for the expenses of the Foundation for Compilation of History [Islamic Revolution].