Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – August 13, 1989

Today, the feeling of surviving leg and back pain is more; Because of not taking medicine last night. It is not important in the reports. Unlike previous years, [Ashura today] Mr. [Syed Abbas] Kaushari did not come to mention the calamity. Because this year, instead of the Rouza in Hosseinieh Jamaran, they had a ceremony next to the Imam's shrine.

In the evening, Mr. [Mohammed Hasan] Rahimian [a member of Imam Khomeini's office] came. He brought some foreign currency and gold donated by foreigners for the Islamic Republic and expressed his concern about the possibility of the isolation of the line of "[Assembly of] Fighting Clergymen" and asked me for help.

Mr. [Mohammed] Faruzandeh informed that the joint meeting of the heads of the army and the IRGC for the division of the two positions of the ministry and the chief of staff did not reach a clear result and they presented incomplete proposals. They informed by phone from Mashhad that Mahmoud's brother, who is there, received a death threat on the phone, was scared and demanded to be taken to the airport with security. They brought us lunch from Ashura offerings. There is a little left for the night.

Mr. [Sidkamal] Kharrazi said on the phone that there are a lot of western advertisements for hostages and we are silent. I told them to consult and launch an advertisement for our oppression regarding the blocking of our properties in America and to explain that the issues of Lebanon have nothing to do with us and that the expectation of intercession does not create controversy and clearly ask the question, what is the reason for the blocking of our properties?