Akbar Hashemi's memoirs - 1999 September 22 - from the periodical meeting of the deputy ministers of the Ministry of Information and foreign travel reports and relations with Russia to the announcement of the press jury's verdict for the criminality of th

The last day of September 1999 in Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's diary has important contents.

From the periodic meeting of the Deputy Ministers of the Ministry of Information and the report of foreign travel and relations with Russia, to the announcement of the verdict of the press jury for the guilt of the late Latif Safari, the editor in charge of the Nishat newspaper, which had many margins, and you have read its narrative in the past days.

Mr. [Ahmad] Shafiei and [Amir] Tehrani came from the Ministry of Information. Mr. Shafiei, [Acting Minister of Information], reported on his trip to Russia and the Republic of Azerbaijan and said that the situation in Russia is no longer similar to the Marxist era and Western culture is dominant, and also that Russia is willing to cooperate with Iran in all aspects.

Mr. [Mehdi] Safari is a successful ambassador, so it is better to stay. Our country should use that exceptional opportunity to transfer knowledge and technology. I said that both of these recommendations were taken into consideration during my government's time, and recently, a firm resolution for the extraordinary powers of the government in this regard has been approved by the Council of Expediency.

In the evening, Dr. [Hasan] Rouhani, [Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council] came. gave explanations about the statement of the research commission about the university; Recently, many protests have been directed at that statement.

Regarding the research center [Strategic Expediency Council] and my candidacy in the [elections] of the [sixth] parliament and the policy of how to deal with Iraq and the determining role of the [constructive] spectrum of agents in the elections of the parliament - if they perform well - and the serious composition of the members of the council We had a conversation at the center [community] of the militant spirituality. Mohsen reported the signing of the memorandum of understanding with Austria for the [construction of] three metro lines.

In the earthquake in Taiwan, which was almost as strong as the earthquake in Turkey, so far more than two thousand people have been killed and four thousand people have been injured. In Turkey, about 16 thousand people were killed. Also, the arrest of [Mr. Khalid Meshaal, Musa Abu Marzouq, and Ibrahim Ghoshe], the leaders of Hamas, after returning from Iran to Jordan, are of interest to news circles. After learning about the arrest sentence, they bravely returned; It will not be without problems for the Jordanian government.

The conviction of [Mr. Latif Safari], the responsible director of Neshat newspaper, by the press court's jury still has a lot of discussion in the press.