Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – April 13, 1988

I went to the parliament at half past eight in the morning. According to the reports, the Kuwaiti plane was refueled in Cyprus and went to Algeria, and talks have started with the mediation of Algeria.

A group of employees [design unit of the research center] supporting the war of jihad construction [Isfahan], who make cars for decontamination of chemically affected areas, came to the parliament with samples of their work. I went and saw the samples and then spoke for them. They take 100 equipped Toyota vans to the front.

Messrs. [Rasul] Mutjabnia, [Syed Hossein] Qatmiri, [Mustafa] Qadri, [Parviz] Malekpour, Mohammadi Selesh Delfan and [Asadullah] Badamchian came to my office and complained about the elections and related issues, in two different ways; Everyone who fails has complaints and is unhappy.

Three Iraqi missiles hit Tehran. One of them landed in the officer's college next to the parliament and broke several windows of the parliament. In the evening, I did the work of the parliament in my office, and at night, a group of members of the presiding committee came. They suggested that to reduce the risk of being hit by rockets, we should hold parliament meetings in the basement.

At night, we had a meeting with a group of leaders of the militant clerical community [Tehran] in the office of Ayatollah Khamenei. They are unhappy with the divisions and lack of success in the elections, and some have suggested not to participate in the second phase of the elections, which Mr. Khamenei and I opposed, and Mr. Mahdavi Kenny was arranged to meet the Imam and demand that the Imam make amends, so that the dignity of the fighting clerical community would not be tarnished. I came home late. Efat also narrated the complaints of some familiar women about the elections.