Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – October 18, 1992

I reached my office at eight in the morning. Mr. [Sidabutaleb] Mahmoudi [Golpayegani], the new Friday imam of Arak, came. He told the situation there and asked us not to leave the governor from the radical line. He recommended to strengthen Azarab industries and criticized the management of machine building and asked me to travel to Golpayegan.

Engineer [Akbar] Turkan, [Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Support] came. He gave a report on the progress of the missile industry and said that half of the capacity of Sased [= Defense Industries Organization] is spent on civilian products, because the forces do not need all the capacity. He applied to pay the demands of China and the Soviet Union.

Mr. [Sheikh Mohammad Baqer Taheri] Shahroudi, the imam of Juma Shahroud, came. He explained the situation there and the loyalty of the people; He is one of my classmates in Qom. He requested that we stay the night in Shahroud while traveling to Semnan province.

Mr. [Mohsen] Nourbakhsh, [Mohammed Hossein] Adeli, [Masoud Roghani] Zanjani and [Gholamreza] Aghazadeh came. They said about the difficulties of the foreign currency and riyal budget in 1372. They wanted to convince me to reduce the construction works; I did not accept

In the evening, in the meeting of the government board, we approved that companies [located in] industrial towns are exempted from taxes. Ministers criticized Mr. [Ahmed] Janati's statements during Friday prayers. Yesterday, the members of the Supreme National Security Council also criticized; They were supposed to be warned.

I was the guest of Ayatollah Khamenei last night. We negotiated and made decisions about the approvals of the Supreme Council of National Security, the issues of jurisdictions, authority, the Expediency Council, Friday imams, the establishment of the Fiqh University of Islamic Religions, and my trip to Semnan.