Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 5, 2003

Mr. [Mahmoud] Vaezi, [Deputy of Strategic Research Center] came.  He had remarks and suggestions about America, Iraq, and Palestine and said that the publication of my interview with [Strategy Magazine] has had a favorable reflection abroad and inside. Mr. [Mohsen] Sharifi, the [executive] deputy of Mr. Rai Shahri [in Astan Hazrat Abdul Azim] came and reported on Astan's actions.  He criticizes the government for the lack of effective help and appreciated the many help in the past.  It seems that they have suffered a lack of liquidity due to the extensive economic [unprincipled] actions.
Mr. [Alireza] Haghigian, Iran's representative in Iraq, came.  Before the war, they closed the embassy and now they have decided to return.  They have sent several people. He said that the embassy was not damaged and only once in front of the embassy, ​​the soldiers had a conflict. The American soldiers went inside the embassy and broke some walls, but the building was not damaged.  Consulted about Iraq issues.
In the evening, Mr. [Abbas Ali] Alizadeh, the head of justice of Tehran, came. He said that the ruling of the appeal of the freedom movement was issued with the approval of the original ruling, but it was decided not to be announced for the time being until the political dimensions and... are examined, and the new ruling of Mr. [Abbas] Abdi, [in the case of the Future Survey Institute] regarding clause D [regarding the keeping of classified documents], which was secret, was also issued and he was sentenced to a few more years in prison.  He informed about the strained relations between Mr. Hashemi Shahroudi, [head of the Judiciary] and Mr. [Abbas Waez] Tabasi, [Tulit Astan Quds Razavi], due to the Nasser Tabasi case, and asked me to help repair it.
In Iraq, one of the American soldiers was attacked in Baghdad and a group of them in Karbala and Samarra, and the British also attacked the Al Jazeera [TV] office.  Paul Bremer, [the executive head of the interim coalition government of Iraq] from the employees of the [US] Department of State, who was assigned to run Iraq, caused a difference between the US Department of Defense and State.  [Colin] Powell, [US Secretary of State], who yesterday expressed relative satisfaction with Syria's behavior, today threatened Syria that if its behavior does not conform to US policy, it should be ready to pay the consequences.
Hamid Karzai, [the head of the interim government of Afghanistan], who was under pressure from the Taliban and al-Qaeda and faced with the verdict of jihad by some Taliban scholars against his government and the United States, praised the Taliban in a speech - to satisfy them - but angered the Mujahideen, who called his statements unjust. 
[Mr. Abdullah Ramzanzadeh], the spokesman of the Iranian government, said that [Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad], the new mayor [of Tehran] will not be accepted in the meetings of the government board, and this has led to the sharp reaction of the right-wing media.  The European Union has put pressure on Türkiye to agree to the passage of Iranian gas to Europe.