Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – October 5, 1992

Before noon, all the time was spent with the meeting of parliamentarians. Dr. [Abbas] Shibani, [Tehran's representative], came and asked for help for the design of Nasser Khosro street, which they have a dispute with the municipality. Mr. [Syed Farajullah] Afrazideh, the representative of Nowshahr, came and asked for civil affairs. [Mr. Ali Mohammad Gharibani and Nour al-Din Aghdam], the representatives of Ardabil, came to pursue the province of Ardabil. [Mr. Ahmad Zamaniyan], the representative of Nahavand came; He claimed heavy debt and asked for help.

Mr. [Habibullah] Askarowaladi came. He criticized the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and demanded change. I criticized the crude plans of the parliament. Mr. [Mohammed Kazem] Seifian, [Tehran's representative] came and asked for help to start a doctoral course in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture. [Mr. Syed Javad Engji, Mohammad Ali Subhan Allahi, Ismail Jabarzadeh and Mohammad Ali Sarkhani and Ms. Fakhrtaj Amirshaghaqi and Fatemeh Homayoun Moghadam], the representatives of Tabriz came and requested for East Azarbaijan province. The members of the parliament's agriculture commission came. They criticized the non-implementation of the approvals related to the strengthening of the agricultural sector.

In the evening, the Economic Council had a meeting. A decision was made about cement and credit requirements for gas. At night, I attended Ayatollah Khamenei's banquet for the marriage of Agha Mustafa [Khamenei]. They were relatives of two families. They had dinner late and had no interesting program for the audience.

I came home late. Mr. [Mahmoud] Vaezi, [Deputy for Europe and America at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs] asked for permission to tell England that the Imam's ruling on Salman Rushdie's [execution] cannot be withdrawn, but the government is not seeking to implement it.