Akbar Hashemi's Memoirs - August 11, 2002

  I went to the Fatimid Mourning ceremony.  Usually after the lecture, I do not read the programs of the scholars;  They have extremes.  Mr. Khatami, too, did not stay this time;  He said he was going to Afghanistan.  I said, it is necessary for the Afghan government to pledge Iran to share Iran's water from Hirmand.  Zabul's area is in danger.

Full text of the day:

I was at home.  I read the bulletins and reports on US policies in the Middle East, especially Iraq and the Israeli lobby system that has a lot of influence.  

At night I went to the Mourning ceremony for the Fatima.  Usually after the lecture, I do not read the programs of the scholars;  They have extremes.  Mr [Seyyed Mohammad] Khatami, [President] did not stay this time;  He came out to me and said, "Tuesday he was going to Afghanistan. I said it was necessary for the Afghan government to pledge Iran to share Iran's contribution to Hirmand.  Zabul's area is in danger;  Hirmand's water has been completely cut off for a while. 
The UN Research Center said that a brown dust mass in the southeastern Asian space that extends from Pakistan to Indonesia causes major environmental damage and causes drought and flood elsewhere, and now these days are floods and droughts.  During this week, hundreds of people were killed in the east and west as well as Russia, and in the west of Elino have negative effects on climatic conditions.

The night of Dr. Mohammad Akhi Zadeh came.  He had gone to Harvard in the United States for a study opportunity.  He said, Mr. [Mohsen] Kadivar and [Abdul Karim] Soroush were also there.  He quoted Kadivar, in the room he was given to him, another Islamic jurisprudence master, who is a well -known Israeli Jews.  Imam Hussein Hospital, who is headed by his head, is in deficiencies as other hospitals, and bureaucracy is slowing down.  

A few days ago, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al -Faisal announced that Iran had delivered 16 members of al -Qaeda and suspects to cooperate with al -Qaeda Saudi Arabia.  The State Department then approved it and has a wide reflection in the world media;  The cooperation of Iran and the United States is interpreted.  Now [King Fahd], the King of Saudi Arabia, who is in the hospital in Switzerland, is rich.  He is discussed about his successor, which apparently will be Amir Abdullah.