Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – November 3, 1997

Before noon, in the evening and at night, at home, I was studying the 1361 memoirs and the 1360 interviews to prepare them for publication. I went to Kushak's office. I read the reports and did the work. I used the swimming pool and wet sauna.

Mohsen came and consulted about accepting the responsibility of Tehran Metro Company; I doubt In the evening Mr. Hossein Marashi, [the representative of Kerman] came. They are worried about the fate of Mr. Karbaschi who was summoned to the court and wanted to know about my talks with Ayatollah Khamenei last night. I said that they did not ask permission from them and they think that the judicial system took their previous prohibition to mean opposing the arrest and not the summons and the questioning, which comes from this, is at the level of a question for the time being. He consulted for the quality of dealings of agents in the government. Opportunities were raised, including a quick meeting with the leadership; I said that the leadership expressed surprise at the statements of Mr. [Mohammed] Yazdi, [head of the Judiciary] in this regard in the Friday prayer, and they think that this was to relieve pressure and respond to public opinion.

Good rains fell last night and today as well. In the news, the issue of the fall in stock values ​​of the East and West stock exchanges, which started with the fall of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and spread to other places, and the crisis in the [United Nations] Security Council's supervision in Iraq, which arose due to Iraq's opposition to the presence of Americans in the monitoring commission, and the explosion of Brazil's first satellite-carrying rocket into space, are of interest.