Akbar Hashemi's memories - November 21, 2002

  Following the gatherings by the Hezbollah forces, in contrast to the gatherings of the past days in the cities of the country and the speeches and harsh slogans against the disrupters and sometimes the government, Majlis and Khordadi II groups.

At the NATO summit in Prague, seven Eastern European countries were accepted as NATO members, and Russia was practically put under new pressure.

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Time was spent studying at home.  Gatherings by Hezbollah forces have been held in the cities of the past days, and speeches and harsh slogans against the troublemakers and sometimes the government, the parliament and the second groups have been held, and the support of the leadership and the judiciary has been widespread, especially in Ahvaz and Shiraz.  In a statement, 162 MPs asked the students to continue their movements against the court ruling [Hashem Aghajari's execution] within the framework of the regulations.  The attack of the right-wing media on the Ministry of Science and university administrators is also intense;  Because of their support of student movements.

In a martyrdom operation on a bus in West Jerusalem, 11 Israelis were killed and around 40 people were injured.  Interestingly, even though more than 10,000 Palestinians suspected of jihad have been arrested, the revenge actions of the Palestinian Mujahideen against the atrocities of the Israeli military are not few and all this violence, arrogance and official occupation has not been able to extinguish the torch of the intifada, and for the time being, the Labor Party, which has left the [Israeli] cabinet, is officially and openly the aggression of the Israeli military and the iron fist [Ariel].  They consider Sharon [the Prime Minister] to be unproductive and to strengthen the intifada.

The White House said that if Saddam claims that he does not have weapons of mass destruction, it is a sign of non-cooperation with the investigators and the axis of the military attack.  The American pressure on Egypt to stop the series "The Horseman Without a Horse" which exposes the scandals of the establishment of the Zionist state is intense, and even the representatives of the American parliament have suggested that if Egypt does not stop the film, the American aid to Egypt will be cut off, and the Moroccan country that bought the series to be broadcast in Ramadan, will stop broadcasting it.  

The revelations of several Afghan and Pakistani prisoners who were recently released from the Guantanamo prison gradually make the public aware of America's atrocities and mistreatment of prisoners and intensify the revenge mode.  The body of Mr. [Email] Kansi, a citizen of [Baluchistan State] Pakistan, who was executed in the United States for the crime of killing two CIA agents [in Virginia City in 1993], was taken to Quetta, Pakistan. He was welcomed by more than 700 cars at the airport.  During the funeral and funeral ceremony, a huge demonstration against America was held, causing panic among the Americans in the region and the closure of a number of their centers.  

Today in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, a McDonald's restaurant near the American military base was set on fire and destroyed, and in Kuwait, American soldiers were assassinated and two of them were injured.  A 5.5 magnitude earthquake shook northern Pakistan with a number of dead and injured and some damage.  At the NATO summit in Prague, seven Eastern European countries were accepted as NATO members, and Russia was practically put under new pressure. 

Due to the recent economic problems, Israel has requested 10 billion dollars of serious emergency aid from the United States, and the United States has officially requested 50 countries to help the United States in the attack on Iraq.  

In Denmark, on the complaint of an Iraqi Kurdish person, General Nizar al-Khazraj, the head of the [joint] staff of the Iraqi army during the war with Iran, has been arrested on the charge of ordering the chemical bombing of Halabja, which killed thousands of people.  Khazraj had escaped from Iraq a few years ago and became a refugee in Denmark.

Pakistan's parliament elected the prime minister and speaker from the pro-Pervez Musharraf party, and Pakistan became a civilian government three years after military rule.  
An American Christian missionary woman from the missionary group was assassinated and killed in southern Lebanon.