Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – November 24, 1994

Expediency Council had a meeting. We had two items in our order: the interpretation of a resolution regarding endowment lands that have been handed over to others, and the other allowing the continued occupation of rented student dormitories for another three years, both of which were approved.

After the meeting, Dr. [Hasan] Rouhani, [Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council], appealed to remove the arrest of one of the MPs - [Mr. Majid Naderi], the representative of Boyin Zahra - who has been detained by the special court. Mr. Emami Kashani also consulted about Friday's sermons about the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, considering the start of NATO attacks on the Serbs.

We went to Azadi Stadium to participate in the women's gathering ceremony on the occasion of Women's Day and Basij Week. The stadium of one hundred thousand people was full of women. Passionate and cheerful, they regularly clapped and whistled and chanted. A meteorologist had predicted that we will have rain in Tehran today, but it did not rain. We were worried. They had been careless in inviting women to the open area without a roof; It went well. Efat, Fati, Faeza and Yaser were also there.

The welcome and report was given by Timsar [Alireza] Afshar, [Commander of the Basij Resistance Force] and Mrs. [Shehla] Habibi, [Advisor to the President and Head of the Office of Women's Affairs]. The female students performed various songs and dance programs. Then the Basiji female battalions marched. I also gave a short speech. Overall, it was a good program. Mrs. Habibi prolonged her speech more than necessary; He reads from the face.

I went to my office. By four o'clock in the afternoon, I did things. I saw videos of the ceremony of "Marzieh", a Taghout singer, going to Iraq and joining the hypocrites and their happiness and strange reception; This incident is a sign of their complete downfall and forgetting all the goals with which they started the struggle.