Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – September 24, 1988

I reached the parliament at seven in the morning. I read the reports until eight o'clock. The members of the Workers' House and the Workers' Councils came. I gave a speech to them and answered their questions. We left for Qom at nine o'clock in the morning and arrived at quarter past eleven. After hearing the reports, I spoke to the graduates at the Higher Education Center of the IRGC coach. One hundred and seventy people have graduated after five and a half years.

At noon, I went to Ayatollah Montazeri's house. I had negotiations with them. They have herds and they have been sick with flu for several days. We had lunch with them. I rested a little and negotiated again. Then a group came from the Islamic Propaganda Office in Qom. They had criticisms about the Corps and the sending of missionaries.

I went to Faizia school. A group of members of the community of teachers and the management council [Qom Theological Seminary] were there. We discussed the limits of the presence of the clergy in the war. Then we came to the school yard. It was a glorious meeting for the martyrs of the clergy. I gave a speech to them. They are upset that the martyrs of the clergy were not mentioned in the martyrs' statistics. They say 2,150 martyrs and 295 missing. After the speech, we left for Tehran. I reached the parliament at half past seven. I prayed and reviewed the reports.

I went to the meeting of the heads of forces in the president's office. There was also Dr. Velayati. He consulted about the peace negotiations and a decision was made. It was decided to help the Indian hostage with the American green card and the professor of the American University in Beirut. He asked for permission to meet the British and French foreign ministers in New York at their request.

Mr. Khamenei raised the request of the Algerian president. He demanded that the heads of oil-rich countries, including Iraq, solve the price and quota problem in a meeting; We decided to answer for the time being, with the situation that Iraq has in the negotiations, such a society will not be successful. I went to the parliament to sleep.