Akbar Hashemi's Memoirs - October 20, 2002

  Mr. Mohsen Rezaei said that the leftists have conspired to discredit the Revolutionary Guards regarding the issue of the import of contaminated meat by a cooperative related to the Revolutionary Guards, as well as helping the country in selling foreign currency and special docks.

The debate over the presence of alcoholic beverages in official banquets in Spain, during Mr. Khatami's upcoming trip, is hot in the Spanish media.

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Mr. [Mohammed Reza] Rahimi, the former governor of Kurdistan, came. He expressed his displeasure at the stagnation of important projects that have been started in the construction government, and also at the rudeness of some agents.  Mr. [Ahmedreza] Kazemi, the former head of the [national] aviation [organization], came.  He works as an advisor to the Minister of Oil in South Pars projects.  He spoke about Mr. Salehifrooz's dispute with Petropars [Company] managers and criticized and relied on the fact that the court condemned him to pay travel expenses for sending a team to hand over the purchased airplanes without obtaining permission from the Foreign Travel Committee.  

Mr. Mohsen Rezaei, [Secretary of the Expediency Analysis Council] came. He said that the leftists have conspired to discredit the Revolutionary Guards regarding the issue of the import of contaminated meat by a cooperative related to the Revolutionary Guards and also to help the country by selling foreign currency and special docks.  

In the evening, Dr. [Mohsen] Saghri, [Director of the Nuclear Medicine Department of Dr. Shariati Hospital], along with Dr. [Abbas] Alavi, one of the world's scientists, came to Pennsylvania, USA.  Dr. Alavi said, he is one of Shushtar's doctors and is famous all over the world in the field of pet scan.  Daroui has invented a medicine that can be used to know the activity of viruses and diseases at each stage, and there is no need for repeated tests to diagnose the progress of diseases such as cancer.  They wanted me to help buy pet scan in the important nuclear treatment centers of Iran.  

The discussion about the presence of alcoholic beverages in official banquets in Spain, during the upcoming visit of Mr. Khatami, [President] is hot in the Spanish media.  

In the Philippines, today, due to the explosion, many people were killed and injured.  In America, [John Allen], the mysterious sniper, took a victim today and the police say that he left a note at the scene and asked the police to contact him!  The US government has allowed Air Force planes to help the police to find the killer.  Today, he arrested a person in a telephone kiosk on this charge.  

Today, 16 Israelis were killed and 40 injured in an assassination operation in the north of Tel Aviv.  [Benyamin Eliazer], the Minister of Defense of Israel, who ordered the evacuation of some of the illegal settlements of the Zionists, during the evacuation, a number of soldiers and people were injured;  He is under pressure from extreme rabbis and has threatened to resign. 
I have a toothache.