Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 19, 1993

After the prayer, I did the work until eight o'clock in the morning. Then to visit the control center

Photo of the secondary system reform plan

Photo of double cabin bus

Traffic of Tehran city and participated in the ceremony of starting the work of 300 double-cabin buses of Vahed Bus Company and opening of the mosque of Vahed Company.

Mr. Wafi Yazdi came. He gave a report on the state of the field and comments on the morale of the people and the departments. It is my permission to find out and report on the behavior of government departments with the people. He made suggestions for me to speak with the student representatives in tomorrow's meeting. I was supposed to go to Qom to justify the students. In order not to carry election propaganda, we preferred that a group of them come to Tehran.

[Executive Vice President] Mr. [Hamid] Mirzadeh came. He presented the report and summary of the reconstruction of the war ruins. It has important figures; The cost of nearly two hundred billion tomans and six hundred million dollars during the four-year period of my government and the rapid progress of reconstruction and...

Mr. [Mohammed] Shafi'i, [Deputy Minister of Information] and the managers of the Department of Public Information came from the Ministry of Information. They presented a report on the negative points and factors of people's dissatisfaction and their desired solutions. Although it was not informative in nature, it was not a bad analysis.

The members of the headquarters for the Imam's anniversary ceremony came. Mr. [Mohammed Ali] Ansari gave a work report and asked for help to meet the needs. I also spoke briefly because of boredom. In the evening, the government board had a meeting. I didn't stay until the end of the meeting because of boredom. I stayed in my office at night; I did both work and watched TV.