Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 15, 2003

The [United Nations] Security Council has started discussing the new resolution of the United States and England on Iraq since last night.  There are fundamental differences.  Russia and France are against the lifting of sanctions on Iraq before the official report of the UN inspectors on the weapons of mass destruction that the United States wants to cancel, as well as how to seize Iraq's property and rights and the issue of Iraq's debts to foreign countries and existing contracts and future contracts have cast a heavy shadow on the negotiations.  America should come short and solve issues with behind-the-scenes deals.  America has not been able to prove the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.  Although he claims, he found two trailers that were probably used as mobile laboratories for the production of chemical and biological weapons.
The talks between Iran and America in Geneva about Iraq issues have been made public and there is a lot of noise in the domestic and foreign media.  Both sides have accepted the principle of negotiation, but they say that it is limited to the issues of Afghanistan and Iraq and not the relations between the two sides.
Radio Iraq Azad has criticized Mr. [Syed Mohammad] Khatami's speech in the Beirut stadium because he did not call the invading forces as invaders.  In a special report of IRNA news agency, it is stated that the office of the Supreme Assembly in Ilam gives birth certificates to Iraqis from Maud who do not have Iraqi birth certificates.  It is reported in the news that Ayatollah [Syed Ali] Sistani's office in London endorsed Mr. Seyyed Mohammad Baqer Hakim and asked the Iraqi people to cooperate with him. It seems that this action was influenced by the opposition to Moqtada Sadr's movement. 
In Iraq, an American military vehicle overturned and killed and injured many.  The British army has handed over the administration of Umm al-Qasr city to the 60-member People's Council, and the same policy may be implemented in other cities. 
Russia, while announcing the continuation of the work to start the Bushehr nuclear power plant, said that it shares the concern of the United States about the construction of Iran's nuclear fuel cycle.  In Yemen, they were killed and injured in an explosion that occurred in a court.
I was studying in the office until the evening;  I also read the draft constitution of Afghanistan, it is good.  Draft [Revolution in Crisis book;  I read the report card and] memories of 1358 for correction. 
The night of Hassan Agha Khomeini came.  He talked about the problems of the second Khordadis stalemate and talked about Iraq and America.  He suggested that Mr. [Syed Mohammad] Khatami and his friends should get out of this impasse that they have created for themselves as a result of the twin bills [= "Amendment of the Parliament Election Law" and "Clarification of the President's Limits and Powers"], otherwise they may take harmful actions such as resignation or resignation.  He said that a group of the Islamic Association of University Teachers, headed by Mr. [Najfaqli] Habibi, met with him and said that we have no way but to remove the clerical authority.  Because they hinder reforms. I said, give them advice.