Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 10, 1987

I worked at home until eight in the morning. We went to serve the Imam. Mr. Montazeri, Meshkini, Khamenei, Mousavi Ardabili, Mousavi Khoiniha, Mahdavi Keni, [Mir Hossein Mousavi [Prime Minister, Karroubi, Imam Jamarani, Ahmad Agha,] Hassan] Sanei and some people from the Imam's office. The imam handed over their new will to the gathering and asked that it be kept in the Majlis of Experts and Astan Quds Razavi, and returned the old will that they had written five years ago and did not explain the reason for the change. They gave short sermons on unity and avoiding differences. Because it had undisclosed points, it was decided not to publish all of it.

From there we came to the parliament. Mr. Montazeri did not come and returned to Qom. In the presence of the crowd, the ceremony of sealing and handing over was done in my office and Mr. Meshkini gave a short speech.

In the afternoon, a group of Mazandaran Hizbollahs came and brought a sum of aid for the front. Mr. [Mohammed] Asghari, the editor of Kihan newspaper, came. Interview wanted and help to buy paper.

In the evening, the Supreme Defense Council had a meeting. It was decided to add four months of soldiers' service and to evacuate some border villages of Kurdistan. I arrived home late.

Yasser had come from the barracks for leave. He said that the training has been compressed, to speed up his deployment to the front and he had brought his Basij clothes to shorten them to fit him.