Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 5, 1990

I reached my office at half past eight. After the work was done, [Mr. Akbar Turkan], the Minister of Defense came and gave a report on the missile, ammunition, airplane and cannon industries. [Mr. Gholamreza Aghazadeh], the oil minister came. He gave the report of the OPEC session and gave my letter to the Iraqi oil minister, and quoted [Mr. Hisham Nazer], the [Saudi Arabian oil] minister, that Shah Fahd was determined to resolve the Hajj issue [with Iran], but he gave up after hearing the statement of the parliamentarians.

[Mr. Mohsen Noorbakhsh], Minister of Economy and Finance, came and made a proposal about the way of managing free zones; I said it should be discussed in the Economic Council. One day a person named Khajah Nasirtousi came. He wrote that he has important plans; There was nothing interesting to say. Messrs. [Masoud Roghani] Zanjani, [Head of the Planning and Budget Organization] and [Gholamreza] Shafii came and gave the report of the Commission for the Distribution of Construction Machinery and Materials. Mr. [Masoud Roghani] Zanjani, [head of the Program and Budget Organization], asked for permission to step down, but I did not agree; He complains about the deprived areas [presidential] office.

Mr. Gholami and Azim from the staff came to my office; They complained about low salary and lack of housing. Mr. [Jamal] Sadatian came for the work of [the president's] advisers. At night, I was supposed to be Mr. Khamenei's guest, but I didn't go because I had to do things, and I apologized on the phone.

I came home Shahidi's mother came and told about her problems; He got a car remittance for his veteran son. We had many phone calls regarding the replacement of the governor of Shahreri, including Mr. [Mohammed Reza] Mahdavi Kony and [Syed Ali] Ghayuri, [the representative of the religious jurist in Shahreri], who objected to the Ministry of Interior.