Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 22, 1987

I went to the parliament first. It was not an important issue in the reports. In the public meeting before the order, I thanked Mr. Montazeri for announcing a march to support the Palestinian people and the ground forces for the new operation.

I was in the meeting until half past ten. Because of a week of travel, there were many representatives. After breathing into the night, I worked in my office to catch up on backlogs.

[Mr. Rafiq Dost] the IRGC Minister came and signed for the purchase of 46 million dollars for war affairs. The meeting of the heads of forces was at Ahmad Agha's house. I gave the travel report and war plans. Imam participated in the meeting. We thanked them for their new fatwa about foreign and domestic films and songs that answered the dry objections of the saints. They also emphasized more on their solution.

Ayatollah Khamenei gave the report of the negotiation with [Mr. Farouk al-Shora], the Syrian Foreign Minister, who arrived in Iran today. He said that he has a proposal to come to terms with Saudi Arabia. The Syrians want to say without language that they cannot accompany us to this extent; They are under a lot of pressure from the Arabs.

Ahmad Agha informed that Mr. [Latafullah] Safi, the Secretary of the Guardian Council, wrote a letter to the Imam and objected to the Imam's recent fatwa regarding the government's right to impose conditions on the private sector that uses government facilities, and the Imam replied and added that the government also has the right to decide about Anfal, and his opinion was that we should inform the representatives. I came home late.