Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 14, 1988

I arrived at the parliament at half past ten in the morning. It was not important in the reports. A group of Jihad managers who cooperate in the war came. They brought a plan to focus on the coordination of war facilities and take the issue of war more seriously, and they had prepared a letter for the Imam and consulted; I agreed to send it. It is close to my own opinions.

In the evening, Brigadier Hosni Saadi, commander of Nazaja, came. We discussed war matters and I emphasized the urgency of sending helicopters and delivering them to the Zuhd area. They did not present a significant operational plan for this year. [Mr. Gholamreza Aghazadeh] The Minister of Oil informed that Iraq attacked the Lark and several ships were damaged. I ordered to retaliate and emphasized that they should try not to get involved with America.

The rural engineer came. He explained about the plan to transfer part of the Caspian Sea water to Damghan and Semnan deserts. I don't think it is realistic. I told him to think about transferring water from the rivers of the country's water areas to the central desert.

Mr. [Javad] Maghsoudi came from Tehran's Friday prayer headquarters. He expressed concern about the failure of their own thought process and complained about the way of propaganda of the opposite current. We were guests of Mr. Khamenei at Iftar. In the meeting of the heads of the forces, it was decided to cancel taking foreign currency from the passengers of foreign planes and to charge a fee of twenty thousand tomans. The plan to merge the army and the IRGC was also discussed, but we did not get anywhere. The discussion will continue. I arrived home at twelve o'clock at night.