Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – November 7, 1984

I had a meeting with Mr. Kharazi who wanted information about the war plan and more funds for the Islamic Republic's news agency for war propaganda. Mr. Habibi, Minister of Justice, came and gave a report about the new organization of the Ministry of Justice; Little by little, he feels less free; He was satisfied so far.

We had a meeting with the representatives of Tehran and the officials of the municipality and governorate and the Ministry of Housing. The commission reported on the inspection of the plans to transfer water from the south of Tehran to the Karaj and Ken rivers and to drain the swamps, and it was decided to work on the general sewage of Tehran and the transfer of water to the south of Tehran. [Mr. Sirajuddin Kazrooni] Minister of Housing reported some of the situation of land and land applicants in Tehran and the continuation of the meeting was postponed to next week.

In the evening, the board of parliament had a meeting. On the first night in the president's office, we had a meeting with the army officials and the heads of the three branches of government to cover the lack of money in the army. Then we had a meeting with the members of the cultural revolution headquarters - whose retention or dissolution is left to the opinion of the heads of the three powers.

The two sides talked in detail. The members of the [Cultural Revolution] headquarters were against the dissolution [of the headquarters], and [Mr. Iraj Fazel], the Minister of Culture and Higher Education, was against the continuation of its work, and then there was a discussion in our own meeting to resolve the dispute. We did not consider it advisable to dissolve [Cultural Revolution Headquarters]. We were more interested in strengthening it by adding the heads of the three powers. We also asked them to decide on the issue of educational exemption for the students of Islamic Azad University from military service. They were against, but we emphasized on this. The acceptance of the UN investigation team for the Iraqi prisoner of war camp in Gorgan and the arrival of the Amnesty International team were discussed, as well as some kind of thanks to Saudi Arabia for its recent position in OPEC.