Akbar Hashemi's memories - October 25, 2002

  The Spanish media criticized their government for accepting the condition of excluding wine at the parties during Mr. Khatami's trip and also not accepting the women's handshake.

Continuation of the argument over the government's twin bills

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I was at home.  The time passed by studying, resting, visiting children and relatives, and making visits that are usually done to solve problems.  The United States has announced that [John Allen Muhammad], the mysterious shooter, was found with [Leeboyd Malvo], his stepson, in a car in a park and says that he is one of the professional American soldiers who received an award for his successful shootings in the Persian Gulf War;  He was a Christian and recently converted to Islam and changed his name from Alan William to Alan Muhammad.  It killed ten people and injured three people, and the FBI announced that it had uncovered a plot to sabotage America's [public] transportation system.  

In Afghanistan, the American military base was attacked with a missile and the conflict between the government forces and the forces of Pasha Khan [one of the leaders of the Zadran tribe] has intensified in the eastern provinces and insecurity has increased.  The house-to-house inspection of the American army to discover weapons caused the anger of Pashtuns in the southeast.  Demonstrations against America have started and many say that America's behavior is worse than the behavior of the occupied Soviet Union.  

As a revenge for the martyrdom operation two or three days ago, Israel launched a large-scale attack on the city and camp of Jenin, and the American representative came to the region to solve the problem. The discovery of a network in the Israeli army that, according to the Israelis, was spying for Hezbollah, and at the head of which was a senior officer with the rank of colonel, caused panic.   Israelis have become;  11 people have been arrested, they are Arabs inside Israel and tent dwellers.  [Benyamin] Eliazer, the Minister of Defense of Israel, has announced that they cannot solve the problem of the intifada with violence, and he has evacuated two illegal immigrant settlements based on this theory, which has angered the extremists and threatened to resign.  

The hostage situation in Moscow is still going on, and [Vladimir] Putin, [Russian President], has canceled his important trip to Mexico to participate in the meeting of leaders of the Pacific Ocean and the Pacific Coast.  

The Spanish media's criticism of their government is extensive, for accepting the condition of removing wine from parties during Mr. [Syed Mohammad] Khatami's trip and also not accepting the ladies [Ana Plasio], Minister of Foreign Affairs and Queen [Sofia] of Spain to shake hands with Mr. Khatami, and at the same time, the insults that are made to the Iranian revolution and Mr. Khatami, during Mr. Khatami's European trips.   Khatami is unprecedented.  Obviously, there is a media power behind it.  There is no news about it in internal media discussions;  Instead, the debate over the government's twin bills continues and the statements of Mr. Abbas Abdi, [journalist], [Saeed] Faqih Razavi, [member of the central council of Tahkeem Vahdat office] and [Alireza] Alavitabar, [political activist] in a student meeting, regarding the non-acceptance of religious restrictions for democracy and support for secularism and that in   If the [elections and clarification of the president's powers] bills are rejected, Mr. Khatami's government should continue to work and remain the president, it has caused the second Khordatis to be questioned;  What Mr. [Akbar] Ganji had said before.

In Bahrain, the parliamentary elections were held and due to the banning of four Islamic parties, only 53% of the people participated, and at the same time, in the first stage, Islamic parties have a good position.  The European Union announced and approved the cost of joining 10 other countries to the Union at around 40 billion euros, and Turkey remained behind the door.  Although Cyprus has been accepted. 
The Chechen hostage takers [in the Moscow theater] have threatened to start the execution of the hostages from tomorrow.  Russia has established severe censorship.  

Colonel [Muammar] Gaddafi, [the leader of Libya] has said that he is determined to leave the Arab League due to the inaction of the Arab League regarding Palestine, Iraq and Sudan.