Mr. [Seyed Mohammad] Jahromi, [Deputy for Executive Affairs and Elections of the Guardian Council], came. He gave a report on the results of the municipal council elections and said that, given the right-wing faction’s share, the expectation is that this faction will not have a significant share in the parliamentary elections.
Mr. [Seyed Mohammad] Jahanjiri, [Deputy for Executive Affairs and Elections of the Guardian Council], came. He gave a report on the results of the municipal council elections and said that, considering the right-wing faction’s share, the prediction is that this faction will not have a significant share in the parliamentary elections. He said that among their fellow-minded people, they have no option other than for me to become involved, or for an independent party of moderates to be formed, and that Mr. Nateq [Nouri, Speaker of Parliament] also holds the same view. I gave the usual response.
Mr. [Behzad] Mozaffari, head of the Civil Aviation Organization, came. He spoke about the problems caused by the presence of numerous organizations at airports, management difficulties, and his plans for streamlining operations at airports, including those in Tehran and Kish. He also discussed the transportation of perishable goods and reducing fuel prices in order to attract international transit aircraft to the airports.
A group of members of the [Central Council of] the Executives of Construction Party came regarding Mr. [Gholamhossein] Karbaschi’s situation. The court has said that it will grant only one month’s delay. He is not willing to accept less than three months, and they have decided that if the situation remains the same, he will not request a postponement and will go to prison. In return, they intend to make use of the endorsements, letters, and signatures issued in his support by managers and representatives. They also asked me to support him. I advised Faezeh not to provoke the court through actions such as publishing the special supplement of Zan newspaper that she had done at the exhibition today. The afternoon and evening were spent attending to affairs.
In world news, developments in the Turkish Parliament are attracting attention. Two veiled women have been elected by the people, one from the Nationalist Party and the other from the Virtue Party. Some extremist secularist members of parliament have opposed the entry of a veiled woman into Parliament. The first woman removed her headscarf and was able to take the oath, but the second—Ms. Merve Kavakçı—refused to remove her headscarf and said that the people had voted for her in precisely that form. The secularist representatives, through uproar and disruptive tactics, prevented her from taking the oath. The Prime Minister, [Bülent] Ecevit, has also opposed her, and the Turkish court has summoned her on charges of causing disorder. Mr. [Süleyman] Demirel, [President of Turkey], has threatened military intervention. It is truly an illustrative example of the disgrace of those who claim to uphold freedom and democracy.
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