Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 28, 1997

From home, we went to the Malik Library and Museum, belonging to Astan Quds Razavi, which is located on the land belonging to the endowment of Haj Hossein Malek, which is located in the garden of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was handed over because it was an endowment. Chastity and Fati were also with me. Mr. [Abbas Waez] Tabasi, [Tulait Astan Quds Razavi] and the managers of Astan Quds were also there. We opened and visited the museums of stamps and carpets, lines and libraries.

In the ceremony hall, the work report was given by Mr. Dehghan and Khair Moghaddam and the explanation of the construction services was given by Mr. Tabasi. Mr. Noorani said that Reza Shah had pressured him to take the properties and fines of the property, and he gave the endowment to Imam Reza (a.s.) and said that he will not give it to Reza Shah and will give it to Shah Reza. I also talked about the endowment and the importance of preserving the endowment and using it and allowing it to be converted to the best in order to benefit from the endowment and preserving the name of the endowment to strengthen the motivation of the endowment.

I went to my office. Mr. [Ali] Askari, CEO of Refah stores, came. He reported the situation and said that since Mr. Khatami did not accept his conditions, he returned to the IRGC to manage the cooperation. He asked me for help to improve the lives of the army personnel. Mr. Tabasi came. We talked about the elections of experts and the recent issues of Qom and Mashhad to weaken the leadership and the future meeting of experts in Mashhad.

In the evening, Mr. [Mohammed Ali] Ansari Noqi, the head of Martyr Rafsanjan Foundation, and his brother came. He said about the problems of Rafsanjan due to the drop in temperature for pistachios and the weakness of the new representative of Rafsanjan to solve the problems and needs of the martyrs' families. He is in Tehran for his wife's cataract surgery.

Mr. [Ali Akbar] Masoudi Khomeini, [in charge of Hazrat Masoumeh's threshold] came. He talked about the situation in Qom and about the opinion of the scholars of Qom regarding the authority of Ayatollah Khamenei, who are against it, and also the need to deal with the issue of Ayatollah Montazeri carefully. He asked for the construction around the shrine. Regarding the issue of burying Mr. [Syed Mohammad Baqer] Soltani in the shrine, he said, a grave is five meters away from the grave

We put Ayatollah [Sheikh Abdul Karim] Hayeri at their disposal, but they made excuses and wanted to be connected to the grave, which we did not have, and they took him to Tehran.

At the end of the museum and library meeting, Ms. Kashani came forward and said that she was the first to raise the idea of ​​creating the Caspian-Persian Gulf canal, and now that it is being taken seriously, why is she not mentioned? I told him to bring his documents to the office, and he brought some letters and correspondence. By eight o'clock at night, I did the work and came home.