Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 4, 1989

At half past nine in the morning, I arrived at the command office [of the entire force]. They brought the anti-revolution counterfeit banknote printing machine, which they had taken from inside Pakistan, along with samples of counterfeit banknotes. IRGC forces have gone 60 kilometers deep into Baluchistan, Pakistan, and by killing the guards of the car, they have moved it inside. They gave a report on the methods and printing centers of Iran's counterfeit banknotes. It is known that the case has the form of economic disruption. We discussed ways to solve this problem. Action was taken.

[Officials] of the military industries of the IRGC came. They reported the successful test of the IRGC submarine and negotiated to continue the work. It was decided to speed up the work with the recently proposed cooperation of Pakistan. The military industry of the IRGC was discussed.

Dr. [Hasan] Firouzabadi came and discussed the current issues of the General Staff. Then the ministers of interior, information, foreign affairs, program and budget, heavy industries, defense and the army came to negotiate and prepare the defense part of the five-year plan. We negotiated for two hours. Necessary decisions were made and the amount of five-year currency and working method and strategy were determined.

I went to the parliament. After a break, a meeting of the Constitutional Revision Commission was held at four o'clock in the afternoon. The cases of changing the name of the National Council to the Islamic Council were determined; There are about forty items. It was approved to submit a single article report to the council. There were useful discussions about the number of representatives and broadcasting management, but the decision was postponed to the next meeting. Iftar was eaten with the guests in the Majlis. I did the work until nine o'clock at night. I came home The children have gone to the party.

Mr. [Mansour] Sattari [Army Air Force Commander] and [Syed Hassan] Firouzabadi reported that a passenger plane entered Iran from the Iraqi border and was heading towards Tehran; It is possible that he was kidnapped. I ordered to be careful. Tehran airport was closed. After some time, they reported that the plane was Pakistani, lost its way and diverted to Iraq in Turkey, then corrected the route and is now heading towards Pakistan. I told them to follow up again to make sure that the report and claim are true.