Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's Diary - June 17, 1999 A private meeting with Ayatollah Khamenei and his account of the sidelines of Seyed Mohammad Khatami's presence in the Razavi Shrine.

  A private meeting with Ayatollah Khamenei and his account of the sidelines of Seyed Mohammad Khatami's presence in the Razavi Shrine.

Alireza Nouri's request regarding the condition of his brother, Sheikh Abdollah Nouri, who was hospitalized in Shahid Tajrish Hospital after Hashemi's previous follow-up through Mohseni Ejeie, and a report on the disagreements between the Participation Front and the Association of Combatant Clergy.

A meeting with Mohammad Hossein Moqimi.

A meeting with the then-cultural and parliamentary deputies of the Ministry of Intelligence (it seems the editor of the diary made a mistake regarding the name of one of them, other than the well-known and alias of Mr. Amir Tehrani) and a security report, particularly about the group of Hashemteh Allah Tabarzadi.

Continuation of Ali Larijani's consultations.

A meeting with the officials of the Shahid Beheshti Charity Foundation.

A meeting with Ali Fathollahzadeh, the managing director of Esteghlal Sports and Cultural Club.

Seyed Hossein Mousavi's report on the sidelines of the factions in the parliament.

A private meeting with Ayatollah Khamenei and his account of the sidelines of Seyed Mohammad Khatami's presence in the Razavi Shrine.

Mr. Alireza Nouri, [representative of Tehran], came. He spoke about the condition of Mr. Abdollah Nouri, who has been hospitalized at Tajrish Hospital due to neck arthritis. They hope that his sentence will be reconsidered, and he talked about the differences between the Participation Front [of Islamic Iran] and the Association of Combatant Clergy.

Mr. [Mohammad Hossein] Moqimi, the governor of Kermanshah, came. He talked about the situation in the province and how the passage of pilgrims to Karbala has revitalized Qasr-e Shirin. He also talked about the importance of the project to transfer water from the Sirvan basin to the Karkheh and Zahab basins and requested the development of Azad University in the province to absorb the unemployed.

[Mr. Amir Tehrani, Ahmadi, Sheidaei, and Jamal Shafiei], the cultural and parliamentary deputies of the Ministry of Intelligence, came. They gave a report on the state of student opinions and the factors of protest in universities and the solutions for addressing them. They talked about the mischief of the [Hashemteh Allah] Tabarzadi group and complained about the lack of cooperation from the judiciary, which has also been said reciprocally.

In the afternoon, Mr. [Ali] Larijani, [Head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting], talked about the new propaganda plot against Iran regarding the [Lockerbie airplane bombing], [the bombing of the American base in] al-Khobar [Saudi Arabia], and [the bombing of the Jewish center in Buenos Aires] Argentina.

Mr. Asgari and his colleagues from the Shahid Beheshti Charity Foundation came and gave a report on their relief services to the poor and requested assistance for building a school in the Haft Chenar region.

Mr. [Ali] Fathollahzadeh, the head of Esteghlal Club, came and talked about the importance of Esteghlal and Persepolis clubs and their fans and the possibility of utilizing these emotions to solve social problems.

Mr. [Hossein] Mousavi, [representative of Kerman], also came. He talked about the factions in the parliament and the differences between Participation and the Association of Combatant Clergy.

I was a guest of the Leader in the evening. We talked about the parliament, universities, the press, and the recent propaganda plot regarding Lockerbie. He reported that yesterday, during Mr. [Seyed Mohammad] Khatami's [President] speech in Mashhad, when Mr. [Abbas Va'ez] Tabasi, [representative of the Supreme Leader in Khorasan], was giving his welcome speech, a group of young people chanted slogans against Mr. Tabasi. Throughout the ceremony, there was a lot of applause and whistling in the courtyard of Imam Reza (AS), and after

the ceremony, a large crowd took to the streets and chanted slogans against Mr. Tabasi, as well as general slogans against the regime.