Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – October 10, 1996

At half past nine in the morning, Mr. [Reza] Seifullahi, the commander of Naja [= police force], came and gave a work report. He complained to the country's minister and brought bitter correspondence between the two sides. He asked for more resources. Mr. [Syed Jalaluddin] Taheri Isfahani, [Imam Juma of Isfahan] came. He appreciated my trip to Isfahan and thanked me for helping Mosli and asked me to ask engineer [Mir Hossein] Mousavi to run for the presidency.

Mr. [Abulfazl] Tawakli Bina came. [Gholamhossein Karbaschi], the mayor of the fruit and vegetable fields [Tehran], complained about the referral of the dispute case to the court and proposed the establishment of a gas distribution company in Africa for a charitable foundation. A group of economic advisers came. Commented on the poverty alleviation plan. In the evening, in the meeting of the government board, there was a discussion about the poverty alleviation bill, which was left unfinished, and we had several resolutions.

Mr. [Aladdin] Boroujerdi, [Deputy for Asia and the Pacific of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs], who was on his way to Mazar-e-Sharif, reported that today in the Afghan wars, there was a victory with [Burhan Al-Din] Rabbani and the Taliban were hit. When I spent watching scenes from the trip to Africa that were broadcast on TV.

Dr. [Reza] Malekzadeh, [head of Shariati Hospital] came. He applied for the establishment of a medical research center [for liver and digestive diseases]. He expressed his satisfaction with his current job compared to the time of the ministry and said that he works in the office for about seven hours in the afternoons and earns about two million tomans a month. Before noon, he works for the government in Shariati Hospital and trains doctoral students.