Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – November 15, 1995

I closed my suitcase. At half past eight in the morning, we flew from Mehrabad Airport to Sanandaj. Mohsen [Hashmi] and Hossein [Marashi] and [Mr. Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, Ali Mohammad Besharti and Seyed Mohammad Soheri], Ministers of Energy and Home Affairs and Telecommunications and... representatives of the province were there. After the official welcome and short interview, we moved to the city. People's welcome was very magnificent and unexpected and orderly. In Azadi Square, the clutch of our car burned and stopped; We changed cars. The first car is armored and from the leadership protection team; I was upset because the windows could not be opened. I was relieved after the change. Due to the conditions of Kurdistan, the security guards had taken precautions, but it was fruitless.

In the gathering of the families of the martyrs, there was a welcome, a hymn, a slogan, and my speeches. They are more cheerful than the martyrs of other provinces; They clapped regularly. People are more cheerful and very kind. We went to the big city stadium [= Malik Nia]. The community was very large and very orderly and obedient. [Mr. Mohammadreza Rahimi], the governor and [Sidmosi Mousavi], the representative of the religious jurist and Imam of Sannandaj and [Syed Marouf Samadi and Abdul Karim Ahmadnejad], the two representatives of Sanandaj, said that they all praised and praised the revolution and me and the plan of the demands. I also had a detailed and thankful talk and complimented the people and construction and promised further development.

We came to the governorate. After prayer, lunch, rest and reading reports, news arrived that a homemade bomb exploded in a corner of the city and killed one person. In the evening, I went to visit and open the projects of Keshavarz Park and construction of the shores of Qeshlaq River and Lake Qeshlaq, and the important projects of electricity development and the interesting plan of Abider Park. I had short talks everywhere, after listening to the reports. It was very spectacular and interesting in the paths, the community and the emotions of the people. We prayed Maghrib in a beautiful and small mosque in Abider Park. The water has been pumped to the top of the mountain. They plant trees all around the mountain.

Then we went to pick up the twenty-five thousand people stadium. The operation ceremony of 20 thousand phone numbers of the province was done with the detailed speeches of Engineer Al-Ghorhi, [Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone] and the Director General and myself on the importance of post and telecommunication projects. We went to the large Islamic center. About six hundred Sunni and Shia clerics were gathered; After a detailed welcome by Mr. [Sidmosi] Mousavi, [representative of the religious jurist in Kurdistan and Imam of Sanandaj Juma] and Mr. [Mamusta Seyed Salahuddin] Hosami, [Imam of Juma from Sanandaj] and Maulvi of reading and turbaning, I gave an extended speech. We had dinner and came to the governor's office. I wrote the memories and slept.