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31 diary entries in this month.
Until three in the afternoon, I was at home. I made up for several days of delay in recording the memoirs. Parliament is adjourned from today until the tenth of Mehr. Many of the representatives are going to Mecca; it is not a good thing. I…
At seven in the morning, I went to the parliament. I read the reports. The news about the hijacked airplane is at the top of the news; [the hijackers] have threatened to blow it up. In the open session, we amended the interest-free banking …
We had a public session. The extension of the [human resources] restructuring law was on the agenda; it was extended for three months, but the Guardian Council objected and rejected it due to lack of funding. The issue of the hijacked Frenc…
I was studying until seven thirty in the morning. It is said that the Air France plane that was hijacked is heading toward Iran. The authorities do not know whether to allow it to land or not? The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has opposed it.…
Until three in the afternoon, I stayed at home; I rested and studied the authority of the Imams and the scholars and the just among the believers. Hajj Ahmad Aqa came and, regarding [Khosrow] Tehrani, the head of the Prime Minister's Office…
I was studying at home until ten thirty in the morning. The country's airline's excuses regarding the passports of some passengers upset me, because of the obstacles the government offices put in people's way. I contacted the Prime Minister…
Early in the morning, I went to the Majlis. I read the reports. The ship “Iran Rashadat” was hit by a missile yesterday and is still burning; they have brought it to Kharg by tugboat. In the past few days in Kurdistan, we have dealt a heavy…
I stayed home; I prepared the Persian text of the Arabic sermon for translation. I read the reports. I reviewed the article I had previously written under the title “Nahj al-Balagha and Politics” for the Nahj al-Balagha Congress, for revisi…
Early in the morning, after prayer and breakfast and writing down the memories of the past two days, I went to the Majlis. I read the reports. I went to the public session. The draft statute of the IRIB was completed; some provisions were c…
I studied until seven in the morning. I went to see the site of the new library. Because of the lack of space, we have moved the Parliament Library to the site of the Negarestan Museum - in the garden of the former Marble Palace, adjacent t…
Before the public session, I worked for a while in my office. In the public session, the draft statute of the IRIB was on the agenda. Although I conveyed Imam's view opposing some of its provisions—which had given extensive powers to the su…
I worked at home until ten in the morning. I went to visit the Imam; in the Imam's outer office, Mr. [Kazem Seifian], the mayor of Tehran, and a group of others were present; the issue of the lands allocated by the municipality's religious …
I entrusted the Friday prayer to Mr. Emami Kashani. I went to the Latian Dam with family members and the Revolutionary Guards; going via Lashgarak and returning via Abali. In the lake, behind the dam, there was a peninsula-like promontory, …
In the open session, Mr. [Mohammad] Norouzi, the representative from Gonbad, announced in his pre-agenda speech that, with the signatures of fifty representatives, the Minister of the Interior had been impeached. They caught us off guard li…
Mohsen, Sahar went to the airport with her father and they did not wake us up. At eight in the morning, she called from the airport saying that the plane was delayed and now they say they have oversold fifty tickets and will not let some pe…
In the public session, elections were held to determine the parliament’s representatives on the council overseeing the IRIB. At the Imam’s request, I accepted the nomination; I myself was opposed, but I know that given the problems that hav…
Until three in the afternoon, I was at home. In the afternoon, I attended the [Parliament] Rules Commission, and at five-thirty I spoke to the clerics of the Hajj caravans - who numbered more than a thousand and were holding a seminar at Al…
I went to Parliament. Before the session, I met with Mr. [Mohammad-Mahdi] Rabbani Amlashi. He had some remarks concerning the Ministry of Intelligence and the Imam's view of the minister, as well as other matters. We also reviewed the [fina…
I was at home all day. Mr. Engineer Morovat came and consulted with me and outlined a plan regarding the proposal that had been made to him by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. He also spoke about the construction of the homes …
I was at home until ten-thirty in the morning. The children went to Karaj. The board of trustees of Refah and their families had a gathering; I too had previously been a member. I went to the university to attend the Friday prayers. I had l…
I worked in my office until seven in the morning. I wrote the Persian text of the Arabic sermon of the Friday prayer and sent it for translation. The news of the bombing of Gilan-e Gharb was confirmed; the rest of the people have left the c…
Before noon, I spent most of my time reading the memoirs of [William] Sullivan [the last U.S. ambassador in Tehran]. It provides a great deal of information about the history of the Revolution and the internal developments within the Shah's…
I went to the office of [Ayatollah] Mr. Khamenei. At six in the morning, I had a meeting with him and Messrs. Sayyad Shirazi and Mohsen Rezaei to review the outcome of the operation and plan for the future. They were satisfied with the resu…
I stayed at home. In the morning, Dr. Motamedi, the Imam’s attending physician, came. I told him that over the past two or three weeks, I had experienced chest pain two or three times. He said that I should be very careful. It was agreed th…
I spent some time writing the closing statement for the session of the [Assembly of] Experts [of the Leadership]. We had assigned it to two or three other people; they had not written anything good. In the Assembly’s public session, the bil…
I was at home until three in the afternoon. I read some reports from government organizations; I also read some of [William] Sullivan’s book—the U.S. ambassador to Tehran during the Revolution. In this book, there are many things about the …
I was at home all day. [Ayatollah] Mr. Khamenei led the Friday prayers. In the morning, Ahmad Agha came, and we talked about [reshuffling] the cabinet, the war, and inflation, and he said it had been proposed to the Imam that, to prevent th…
In the open session of Parliament, I paid tribute to the martyr Dr. [Hassan] Ayat - on the anniversary of his martyrdom. We had an interpretation of the Urban Land Law, and there was a problem with the bill of the Ministry of Construction J…
Until seven in the morning, I was studying. Mr. [Ali Akbar] Mohtashami, our ambassador to Syria and head of the IRGC, and Mr. Sayyed Abbas, a member of the Council for Lebanese Affairs, arrived. They gave a report on the situation there and…
Early in the morning I went to the parliament. I read the reports. On the Walfajr 2 and Walfajr 3 fronts, clashes continue with our superiority. In Shalamcheh, Iraqis have attacked our first embankment. In Turkey and the southern Persian Gu…
I stayed home all day today; it was a rest. I also wrote a few pages of the article "Haft-e Tir [Narrative of Separation]". Part of my time was spent reading the memoirs of [Zbigniew] Brzezinski [US National Security Advisor] about the even…