Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 9, 1984

I was at home until two o'clock in the afternoon. I wrote the memories. I read the reports. A coup has started in Libya and it has failed. The Minister of Foreign Affairs consulted on the phone to go to Libya to strengthen them; I agreed. Mr. [Sheikh Hassan] Saneyi came; He requested to hold the ceremony on June 15.

I went to the assembly in the evening. I read the reports and signed the administrative letters. The [Arabian] Saudi authorities have shown that there is evidence of a collective conspiracy by striking oil tankers by Iraq. At night, there was a meeting of the security officials at the house of Mr. Mousavi Ardabili [President of the Supreme Court of the country]. The president was not present due to his trip to Mazandaran. It was decided to retaliate in the Persian Gulf against hitting oil-carrying ships.

Ahmad Agha quoted from Imam that they agree with the freedom of Ehsan Tabari [theoretician of Tudeh Party] - who gave a private interview. He was set to be released and monitored. Also, Imam was upset that in one of the classes of the University of Tehran, a barrier was erected between male and female students by the academic jihad, and ordered it to be removed. We discussed about the elections and it turned out that Ayatollah Montazeri's letter to the Imam - who has been criticized in this regard - has been circulated. I came home at eleven o'clock at night.