Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – September 8, 1986

First, the IRGC commanders came and gave a report on the Karbala II operation. They have not been successful. In the axis that the Iraqi Mujahideen have acted, they have had relative success, and in the axis of action of our own forces, they have retreated by giving about four hundred martyrs and missing people. They gave a report of the future operation, which was not promising.

We went to the camp headquarters meeting. They gave a full report and consulted. Due to the leaking of the operation and the failure to find a complete solution, it was ordered to check once again at the tactical headquarters in Najaf and give an opinion so that a decision can be made in the next meeting.

Mr. Rafiq Dost came at noon. He gave the report of the trip to Libya and the preparation of supplies. Then Colonel Hosni Saadi, the commander of the ground forces, came. He told his needs and the progress of his new organization. I greeted the president on the phone who returned from Harare today. They seem satisfied.

Zohar Fati reported that Mahdi had called from the front and the secretary of my office said that they were brought back because their battalion was operating in Haj Imran. I spent the night in my office reading reports and doing things.

I consulted Mr. [Ayatollah] Khamenei over the phone about the funeral of the Iraqi martyrs in the Karbala-2 operation. At night, Mr. Mohsen Rezaei and Rafiq Dost came. The needs of the war and the problems of cooperation between the army and the IRGC were discussed. I went home.