Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 12, 1987

I worked at home until nine o'clock in the morning and listened to the news. I came to the parliament. I saw the reports. Biased interpretations about the change of the Imam's will have started and are mostly focused on weakening Ayatollah Montazeri and inducing discord.

I worked in my office until the evening. Mr. Qadri [the representative of Piranshahr] came and expressed his satisfaction with the IRGC's cooperation with the Barzanis and the progress of the work and said that the Kurds are with the revolution.

I wrote a televised message for the [meeting] of the Islamic Student Associations of America and Canada. They wanted the message to be with my image and voice. In the past, I usually gave written messages. A group of officials from the Quds camp, who deal with the deployment of troops, came. They reported the progress of the work and the results of the new measures and the plan towards Karbala II and told the needs. It is relatively good, but registration and scheduling for deployment are not optimal.

The meeting of the heads of forces was held in the office of Mr. Mirhossein Mousavi, the Prime Minister. We have changed the meeting time from Sunday and Wednesday to Saturday and Monday. Mr.] Hamid [Ansari], the head of the Central Commission for Combating Price Increases and Inflation Control, came together with the price control group and implementation of government sanctions. They reported the progress of the work. They are satisfied and say that they have curbed the inflation and provided for price control of some other goods. Mr. Kongerlo and Meiri reported on the work with France and future plans were determined; Overall, work is progressing well and both parties want to normalize relations. I came home at night.