1999, September 14, Tuesday was the first year when the death of Hazrat Fatima Zahra, the daughter of the Prophet of Islam, became a martyrdom and became an official holiday with the approval of the parliament.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani narrates in his memoirs like this:

According to the proposal and request of one of the Qom authorities, who is not named explicitly, this work was done by Seyyed Mohammad Khatami, the president at the time.

March 20, the nationalization day of the oil industry, was supposed to be closed instead.

According to Hashemi's writing, the Parliament and the government have deviated from this decision with the media's booing and considered it a sign of weakness and passivity.