Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 23, 1984

In the public meeting of the parliament, two urgent bills to help Syria were discussed. It turned out that Mr. [Ali Akbar] Moinfar [Tehran representative] wrote a name as an opponent; It was speculated that he intends to crowd and create problems and raise himself in the last days of the life of the parliament. It was suggested to stop him from speaking, but I preferred to let him speak. The representatives were patient and the bill was approved by a strong majority.

In the afternoon, I met with [Colonel Tarabi], the head of the Imam's advisory office [in the army], in my office, and he reported the incident of seeing oil tankers in the Persian Gulf region. He was satisfied with the effort and cooperation of the navy and air force [Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran]; He praised Captain Binder and denied being the commander of the naval force, and insisted on replacing the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

In the evening, in order to finish the unfinished works, we had a public meeting of the Majlis. In the evening, there was also a meeting of the chairmanship of the parliament; It was discussed about the affairs of the parliament and providing security, livelihood and housing for the representatives of the previous term - after the end of their term of representation - and it was decided to provide them for the two months they need.

At night, we were guests of Ahmad Agha. Imam also participated [in this party]. Mr. [Mahmoud] Boroujerdi gave a report on the talks between the representative of Saudi Arabia and Mr. Mohtashmi in Germany, which did not have any important content. We talked with Imam about the oil tanker crisis in the Persian Gulf region. We did not get a clear result. The Imam expressed his sadness that the people of the cities of Iran and Iraq were harmed [as a result of the airstrikes]. We had dinner and I came home late.