Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – October 25, 1997

Expediency Council had a meeting. We modified the [internal] regulations based on the opinions of the leadership. After the meeting, Mr. [Abdullah] Nouri, the minister of the country, came and expressed his concern about the trial of [Mr. Gholamhossein Karbaschi], the [Tehran] mayor, by Mr. [Mohammed] Yazdi, [Head of the Judiciary], and said that it is not possible to work with this situation. Mr. Khatami, [the President] also came to the office and expressed his concern in this regard, as well as the failure to solve the problem of Europeans and economic insecurity with the current propaganda; It is a little troublesome.

In the evening, we went to Vahdat Hall for the ceremony that the youth of southeast Tehran had organized to thank me for my construction services. At my request, they named the event after Hazrat Zahra (PBUH), but the content was the same as they had planned. The song of the choir, most of whom were girls, and the song of Bandar Khmer youth singers and thanks to singers were performed in the local dialects of Kurdish, Lori, Khuzestan, Ashayari, and Yazdi. They presented a plaque and I spoke briefly about the importance of young people's attention to the construction and crystallization of social justice in the south of Tehran and the south of the country and deprived areas. Faeze also participated in the meeting. They praised her and said that she is the guide of the girls of the southeast.

At the end of the night, Mr. Khatami, [the President], told the result of his negotiations with Mr. [Mohammed] Yazdi, [the head of the Judiciary] on the phone, and that his statements during the Friday prayer were not unprecedented, and that he was unaware that the leadership had forbidden the prosecution of the mayor of Tehran. For this reason, he asked the leadership to punish the lying reporter, and even though it has been two or three weeks, the leadership office has not taken action and he is complaining about this.