Akbar Hashemi’s Memoirs – February 9, 2003

At the Shahab Khodro factory, I gave a speech about the importance of fueling cars from an economic and environmental point of view. Mohsani said about the situation of Ayatollah Montazeri and the court of inquiry and the person of Mr. Abdi, and that some interrogators believe that it is better to be released, as he promised, outside of prison, to tell about the problems of cooperation and recently he wrote a letter from prison to the party and about their problems.  has raised

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I worked in my office from dawn to half past eight in the morning.  Then we went to visit Shehab Khodro factory.  Engineer [Mahmoud Hosseinzadeh] Hejazi, the manager of the factory, explained.  It was established in 1342 and it mainly manufactures trucks and buses, and in recent years, a part of it has been donated to Astan Quds [Razavi] Khorasan, and the other part has been bought in an auction, and three percent of it belongs to the workers.  Now it makes city and intercity buses.  Recently, it has been producing 500 buses with gas-burning technology for the Ministry of State. 
 We visited the production hall and we heard the report of Mr. [Ali] Karimi [Quddoosi], the deputy of Astan Quds [Razavi], and I gave a speech to the audience about the role of workers in the revolution and the importance of gas burning cars from an economic and environmental point of view.  
I returned to my office.  Ali Sharifian, a companion of a person named [Ibrahim] Yazdanparast, from the people of Bushehramad, said that he is the secretary of [Persian] literature and he believes that he met Imam Zaman (A.J.) or another unknown holy person and heard my description from him and became his disciple and he went to Nuq [in ​​Rafsanjan] to see my hometown.  He provided analyzes about the war and my policies and the situation in Iraq and America;  Part true and part fantasy.  
In the evening Mr. [Gholamohsin] Mohseni Ajeei, [Prosecutor of the Special Clergy Court] came.  Regarding the situation of Ayatollah Montazeri and the court [institute] of Nazarsenji [Ainde] and Mr. [Abbas] Abdi himself, he said that some of the interrogators believe that it is better for him to be freed, as he promised, outside of prison, to tell the problems of the actions of the participants [Party] and recently he wrote a letter from prison to the party and raised their problems. A report by a person named [Hossein] Alikhani, who in  He is in Cyprus and has a suspicious behavior and cooperates with national [religious] leaders and co-operatives.  
France and Germany have said that they will give a plan to the [UN] Security Council to quadruple the number of [UN weapons] inspectors in Iraq and for a while the UN peacekeeping forces will control Iraq to ensure disarmament.  
[Hans] Blix, [Chief of United Nations inspectors] and [Mohammed] ElBaradei, [Chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency], went to Baghdad today and announced that the Iraqi government had given important documents to the inspectors and yesterday they were able to negotiate with three Iraqi scientists without the presence of the officers. 
I came home at night.  Saeed [Lahouti, Fati's wife] and Ali brought dinner.  I saw the night light series;  It is interesting.