Dr. Kamal Kharrazi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, gave an explanation of the pressure from Western countries to accept the Additional Protocol and brought today's article from the Los Angeles Times, which explicitly relied on evidence to accuse Iran of having a nuclear weapons program and being close to achieving it.
Mr. Roberto Toscano, the new Italian ambassador, came. The discussions were friendly and ceremonial. He is reserved and taciturn.
Dr. Mehdi Akbarzadeh, an advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture, came and complained about the non-payment of his funds by the Management and Planning Organization.
Mr. Valiollah Shojapourian, the representative of Behbahan, came. He brought the documents for the investigation and inquiry into the IRIB and provided supplementary explanations. He asked me to participate in the commemoration ceremony for Mr. Mohammad Bagher Vahid Behbahani, one of the great Shia scholars of the 12th and 13th centuries AH. He is dissatisfied with the lack of cooperation from the IRIB. The case file of the investigation and inquiry by the sixth parliament into the performance of the IRIB is currently with the judiciary.
In the evening, Dr. Kamal Kharrazi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, came. He gave an explanation of the pressure from Western countries to accept the Additional Protocol and brought today's article from the Los Angeles Times, which explicitly relied on evidence to accuse Iran of having a nuclear weapons program and being close to achieving it. He asked for my help to get out of this situation. He said that last night, the government and the parliament held a joint meeting, and Mr. Khatami made general and ambiguous remarks, calling for the approval of two recent bills by the Guardian Council.
Western and counter-revolutionary media have made a lot of noise about the statements of Seyyed Hossein Khomeini in his interview with the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, claiming that he spoke against the system, the leadership, and velayat-e faqih and intends to fight. However, Imam's office, quoting Hossein, has denied these claims.
In Iraq, as on other days, clashes, killings, and arrests continued. In northern Afghanistan, 16 armed men affiliated with Abdol Rashid Dostum were killed in an explosion. Six others were killed in clashes with forces of Atta Mohammad Noor, and there were also clashes in the south.
In Palestine, following the arrest of a number of mujahideen, the Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for an attack on an Israeli vehicle, which caused several injuries, and Israel also killed several people; although the detainees were released. News was published that Colin Powell intends to resign from George W. Bush's cabinet, citing a family problem.
In India, 35 people were killed in an explosion. In the vicinity of Zahedan, an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale occurred with no casualties.
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