I saw the reports in my office until half past nine. The issue of Iraq and the United States is moving towards a crisis. Dr. [Hasan] Habibi, [first vice president] came. He gave explanations about the secretariat of the assembly and appropriations, and about the issue of summoning the [Tehran] mayor to the court and also about the delay of the government's control.
Until nine-thirty I reviewed the reports in my office. The Iraq–America issue is heading toward a crisis. Dr. [Hassan] Habibi, [First Vice President], came. He gave explanations about the Expediency Council's secretariat and its budgets and, regarding the issue of summoning the [Tehran] mayor to court and also the delay in the government's and the President's mastery over the country's important issues and the impossibility of making significant decisions in these three months and the lack of a suitable horizon for the future, and especially in view of the uproar over windfall wealth, he expressed concern.
Mr. [Ahmad] Shafaat, the head of the surveying affairs of the Plan and Budget Organization, came and expressed unhappiness that after me the military men have prevented surveying within the two-hundred-kilometer range from the borders and that in practice the photography has been shut down and they themselves cannot do the photography, and he asked me to help solve the problem. He said that Mr. [Ali] Shamkhani, the Defense Minister, instead of helping, is trying to take this authority entirely away from the [Plan and Budget] Organization and give it to the Ministry of Defense, and that Dr. [Mohammad-Ali] Najafi, [Head of the Plan and Budget Organization], does not consider it advisable to act through the President; he does not consider it effective. I said they should write a letter to the Leadership, and I will help too. He brought a sample of the guide map that has recently been prepared for pilots and has been produced in Iran for the first time.
Mr. Majid Ansari, [Tehran representative], came. He expressed severe concern about the current conditions and said he does not see the future horizon as positive. The position of the Leadership after the two recent elections and the issue of windfall wealth and the performance of the judiciary, which has been attributed to the Leadership, and also the performance of the broadcasting organization, have been severely weakened. For example, in Qom, Mr. [Hossein] Vahid Khorasani has discussed against the powers of the Guardian Jurist in his lesson, and also Mr. [Mohammad] Abaei [Khorasani] has said that in Mashhad, Mr. [Mirza-Ali] Falsafi has started a lesson on the Guardianship of the Jurist, which he too does not agree with and considers limited. From Tehran, Mr. [Seyyed Hashem] Rasouli Mahallati has told his brother Mr. [Mohammad-Taqi] Falsafi, the preacher, to tell him not to continue this lesson, and he has said that since he has no other lesson prepared, he will for now cancel the lesson entirely, and given that it is the most important lesson of the [Mashhad seminary], it has had a bad effect on the seminary.
He said that with all this opposition and weakening, there is no reaction in society; whereas in the Imam's time, when Ayatollah [Seyyed Mohammad-Reza] Golpaygani said a sentence weakening the Guardianship [of the Jurist], this same thing caused Ayatollah [Mohammad-Ali] Araki to be presented as a authority in opposition to him. He complained about the bad economic situation, because of the loss of economic security due to the recent uproars and the action of the judicial apparatus, and said these things prevent the government's success. And he also expressed unhappiness about the situation of the parliament, that the line opposed to the government, with questions and speeches, puts pressure on the government, and Mr. Nateq Nouri, [the Speaker of the Parliament], does not help either. He asked me to go to the parliament [by participating in the upcoming elections].
They are busy preparing a letter for the Leadership. He expressed regret about the weakness of the Leadership's office, that it is not sufficient for managing this sensitive center and is not comparable to the management of the Imam's office. I too expressed concern about the necessity of removing the ambiguity from the economic situation for the future and the unsuitable propaganda atmosphere and the undermining of capital security.
Mr. Hossein Mar'ashi, [Tehran representative], came. He said they have decided to write a letter to the Leadership complaining about the judiciary regarding the summoning of the [Tehran] mayor, and to go to meet me and Mr. Khatami. The mayor should also ask the court that, since [Mr. Gholam-Hossein Karbaschi] is a cleric, his case should go to the special court [for the clergy].
My brother Mohammad, [Executive Deputy of the President], came. There was talk about the country's issues and the family. In the afternoon [Mr. Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini], the representative of Torbat-e Jam, came. He thanked for the development services of the construction government and expressed concern about the country's future, given the diminishing importance of the country's development and progress, and spoke about the Taliban's [in Afghanistan] sedition and the weakness of the military and law enforcement forces there.
Mr. [Seyyed Reza] Zavarei, [Head of the Deeds and Properties Registration Organization], came; as always he spoke about the political, economic, and other problems, and for the first time I too shared in some of his concerns. He asked me to take action to organize the loyal forces to prevent important and serious dangers. He said he no longer goes to the [Mo'talefeh] party. Mr. [Reza] Amrollahi came. He consulted about his own work and said that in the [Kargozaran] party they have decided to ask me to go to the parliament; I said I will not accept.
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