Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi - November 22, 2001

Sheikh Ahmad Jannati's consultation on amending the three-emergency plan of the Sixth Majlis contrary to Ayatollah Khamenei's intentions regarding the elections
Full text of the diary:
At home, I was reading tomorrow's sermons and bulletins for tomorrow's sermons.In the evening, Mr. [Ahmad] Jannati, the secretary of the Guardian Council, came and we discussed the quality of the review of the three-point plan of the parliament on election supervision, which was sent to the [Expediency Council] by the parliament today Amended Parliamentarians [vii].
Then Mr. Ali Larijani, the head of the IRIB, came and said that the goal of the parliament is to eliminate the approbative supervision [of the Guardian Council] and that if this is not possible, they will resort to a referendum. He asked me to talk to the Supreme Leader about this, and if they do not have the foundation of resistance, the Assembly should not enter the battle.

 Today, the Majlis refused to amend the objections of the Guardian Council to the three-point amendment and approved that the bill be brought to the Assembly. [Mr. Larijani] said that [Jack Straw], the British Foreign Secretary, who was in Tehran today and met with members of the special parliamentary committee, did not say good things in the final interview and somehow interfered in Iran's internal affairs.
The Afghanistan conference, which was supposed to be held in Berlin, has been moved to a town near Bonn due to concerns about an attack by the opposition. Yesterday, four journalists were killed by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, and yesterday the news of the killing of three more journalists was broadcast, which was later corrected that they were three Americans and not journalists. In Kunduz, Maidan Shahr and Kandahar, fighting and fighting continue, and in some other cities of Afghanistan, there is also war and internal conflict and there is practically no security necessary for relief efforts. The problems of the people are many, and the possibilities of the United Front are small.  
The United States has officially announced that anthrax bacteria are spread by an American microbiologist. In Palestine, today they attacked a school with tanks, martyring five students and wounding a number of others. Salafist attacks against Saudi Arabia have increased, saying that the Saudi regime is shaky and that Fahd [King of Saudi Arabia] was assassinated, which was denied.