Hojjati spoke about the decline of attention to agriculture in the Fourth Plan; Faraji-Dana called for the return of the Friday prayer venue to the University of Tehran; Amrollahi expressed concern about the nuclear agreement, and insecurity in Iraq has continued; Iran's promise of 300 million dollars in aid to Iraq caused a controversy in the Sixth Majlis. They have said that while Iran is owed 100 billion dollars by Iraq, why is such a promise being made...
Mr. [Mahmoud] Hojjati, the Minister of Jihad and Agriculture, came and gave a report on the agricultural situation and the possibility of achieving self-sufficiency and food security based on the resolution of the Assembly [Determining Expediency of the System] in the third plan. He said, in the policies that the government brought to the assembly for the fourth plan, attention to agriculture was reduced and they were satisfied with relative self-sufficiency. He wanted the assembly to act as before.
Mr. [Reza] Farjidana, the president of Tehran University, came. He expressed his happiness that the parliament did not give him a vote [of confidence] for the Ministry of Science and said that he himself was not willing, Mr. [Syed Mohammad] Khatami imposed. He gave a report on the approval of the development plan of Tehran University, which was started and implemented during my tenure, in the government. He said, its implementation today costs 300 billion tomans, while if it was implemented in the past, it would have cost about 25 billion tomans; 250 billion tomans is for the purchase of properties around the university. He requested that the Friday prayer be moved to the mosque earlier so that the previous place returns to the university. He knew that the leadership was not in favor of handing it over to the university and said that the students might turn it into a political issue. In academic circles, this issue is of concern and they do not accept that the prayer is not used and here it is used only one day in a few weeks. The dispute between the Friday prayer [organization] headquarters [Tehran], the supervisors of the construction of the mosque and the leadership office has caused a delay in the transfer. He brought a Dehkhoda dictionary CD.
Mr. [Reza] Amrollahi, [former head of the Atomic Energy Organization] came and expressed concern about the agreement on nuclear energy.
The situation in Iraq today was still tense and full of incidents. In some media, the early withdrawal of America from Iraq has been raised. The US has questioned the use of Turkish forces, which has angered the Turkish government.
Mr. [Sheikh Abdul Salam] Al-Koblisi, one of the Sunni scholars, said that a number of Sunnis were killed by the Shiites who returned from Iran. [Faris Essam], the deputy mayor of Baghdad was also killed today. A few days ago [José Bernal Gómez], the military attache of Spain was killed in Baghdad. Many cases of assassination are carried out against administrators who have a Baathist background.
In the [Sixth] Parliament, the promise of 300 million dollars in aid to Iraq by Mr. [Kamal] Kharazi, [Minister of Foreign Affairs] was attacked in the [Madrid meeting in] Spain and they said, while Iran owes 100 billion dollars to Iraq, why is such a promise made? The Kuwaiti parliament has also protested against the Kuwaiti government in this regard.
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