Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 14, 1987

I arrived at the parliament around eight o'clock in the morning. Before the meeting, one of the employees of our embassy in Belgium came with Mr. [Syed Mahmoud] Doa'i and said that one of the candidates for the upcoming French presidential election would like to come to Iran for the issue of hostages, and an American diplomat said that they would like to continue negotiations on hostages and relations.

Before the order, I spoke briefly about the UN Secretary General's statement condemning Iraq for using chemical weapons and acquitting Iran. I stayed in the meeting until ten o'clock. I did the backlog in my office before noon.

[Brigadier Hosni Saadi] the commander of the army's ground forces came. informed that the Iraqi prisoners said they know the location and date of the upcoming attack by the Iraqi army. It was decided to check more before the operation. They brought Mr. [Ali] Shamkhani's resignation letter from the IRGC ground force command; I got worried. It seems that he is unhappy with Mr. Mohsen Rezaei; If politics is not something to get more points.

At noon, Mr. Hamid Bahrami came. He gave a report on the situation of the Hague Court and brought the text of the sentence of the American conviction. Since yesterday, in some cities of Sulaymaniyah province of Iraq, a conflict has started between the people and the Iraqi army, and the victory belongs to the people. People's armed forces also help the people; It seems that Iraq wants to move people to another place. In the evening, I attended the meeting of the Supreme Defense Council and we were the guests of Mr. Khamenei. I came home at night.