Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – August 7, 1998

I listened to the news and read the reports. The [UN] Security Council ordered Iraq to cooperate with the inspectors unconditionally. America has also raised the issue of using military force. It was announced that Mrs. Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern, was interrogated for nine hours in the presence of the jury about the accusation of sexual relations with Clinton, and after receiving security, she told the truth.

NATO is making a prelude to military action in Kosovo and the [UN] Security Council has warned of a ceasefire around the war in Afghanistan. Commenting on the government's economic organization plan is broad and usually considered to be without new content and lack of executive guidance and solutions. I was at home. The time was passed by reading the narrative booklet of Hijran, for the introduction and footnotes of the memoirs of 1360, and studying the subject of "firm and similar in the Qur'an" and studying the history of our ancestors.

In the afternoon, Faezeh, Mehdi and the children were here. Faizeh brought a short editorial for the first edition of Zan newspaper, which will be published tomorrow, for consultation; I gave notices. Mehdi complained about the behavior of Mr. [Bijan Namdar] Zanganeh, Minister of Oil.

The news of two huge explosions in the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, [by the al-Qaeda group] with many casualties, is of interest. So far, about 80 dead and a large number of injured have been identified. Extracting the injured from the rubble continues. In Nairobi, eight Americans were reported dead and five missing. All over the world, American flags are flying half-mast and the threat of America against terrorists has increased. But for now, they are not naming anyone.