Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – November 19, 1983

I was at home until three in the afternoon. I did two interviews. One about the records of Mr. Montazeri and the other about migration from the villages with Jihad Roosta magazine. I spent some time in the garden with Sara - my baby Fati - and we took a picture. Mr. Ashtiani came from Beit Imam and offered to run for parliament from Ashtiani. Around noon, Ahmad Agha came and talked about the resignation of Mr. [Syed Hossein] Mousavi Tabrizi and the questioning of Sadegh Tabatabai in the Revolutionary Court of the Army and the Haqqani School - which its guardian wants to take back - Mr. Janati also called me to follow up on the matter regarding the Haqqani School. [Colonel Salimi] Minister of Defense informed by phone that the contract for the sale of the Exuse missile is close to completion, but the price is high. I told him to bargain about the price. It should be at a fair price. Mohammad Sadegh Lebanese phoned. He wanted time for an interview with Al-Lawa Lebanese newspaper. I asked the office to get a remittance for a sack of gravel on the roof of an Iraqi immigrant's house. I have a lot of such small tasks every day that do not appear in my memories. I wrote this as an example.

I went to the president's office in the evening. The Economic Council had a meeting. Decisions were made to fight inflation. After that, with the presence of [Mr. Mohtashmi] our ambassador in Syria, [Mohsen Rezaei] the Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Prime Minister and [Dr. Velayati] the Minister of Foreign Affairs, decisions were made about the situation in Lebanon and the problem of the Palestinian civil war and the quality of our mediation while maintaining Syria's expectations. It was decided to welcome thirteen of our martyrs in Lebanon with an official ceremony; To prove the anti-Israel position and to neutralize the propaganda of the enemies. Messages were sent to Hafez Asad. We gave more facilities to the fighters in Lebanon. I went to the assembly at night. At night, we had an attack in the continuation of Wal-Fajr 4 operation.