Memories of Akbar Hashemi - February 3, 2001 - Important Meeting with Seyed Hossein Marashi and Report on Meeting with Seyed Mohammad Khatami

Important Meeting with Seyed Hossein Marashi and Report on Meeting with Seyed Mohammad Khatami

Meeting with Saeed Sohrabpour and Officials of Sharif University of Technology to Discuss University Affairs

Meeting with Jalil Basharti and Report on Office Activities

Continuation of Criticism from Seyed Reza Zowraei, This Time Criticizing the Activities of the Judiciary, Especially the Trial Process of the Shahram Jazayeri Arab Case

Complete Daily Report:

In the infrastructure committee of the Expediency Council, the general policies of urban planning were discussed; the general framework has been completed. After the session, Mr. Hassan Sanei, head of the 15 Khordad Foundation, complained about the leadership and Mr. Ali Akbar Nateq Nuri, head of the leadership office inspection, and said, "I have sent a message for them to come and receive it."

In the evening, the board of directors from Khorasan Industries came. They provided a report on the state of industry in the province and stated that, during the Reconstruction era, the industry of the province progressed as much as it would have in half a century, and the number of industries, which before the revolution was less than 200 small and outdated units, has now reached 2,500 units, including significant industries. There are 90,000 people employed in the province's industry, and the Central Asian market has also helped boost the sales of the province's products. They sought assistance to amend labor and tax laws and to prevent the discrediting of industrious entrepreneurs with terms like capitalist and rent-seeker, etc. They expressed grievances towards the parliament for using these terms in recent sessions and noted that the advanced world refers to capitalists as entrepreneurs to encourage and highlight the value of work.

In the evening, Mr. Ali Larijani, head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), informed me that the parliament and the Guardian Council have disagreed on several issues, and it has been decided that the budget bill will come to the Expediency Council. He requested that the processing of the budget be expedited. For the first time, the budget bill is being referred to the council. Today, the discussions in the parliament were intense and contentious.

Relations between Turkey and France have soured due to the recognition of the Armenian genocide during the Ottoman Empire, and this issue has been raised in the parliaments of France and England. In Bangladesh, a general strike took place today in Dhaka to oppose the Supreme Court's ruling regarding a fatwa.