Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 30, 1997

The directors of the Mustafafan Foundation tourism organization came. Mr. Ghamkhar reported on the works done for the development of Iranian tourism and world tourism and helping the pilgrims of Umrah and Syria and the obstacles to the development of tourism; Currently, it is about 650 thousand people per year. He gave explanations on the effects of currency exchange and employment and its cultural growth. I also spoke and gave instructions on the need to remove obstacles.

Mr. Nawab, Imam Juma Qaim came to the city. He said about the poverty of the people of the city that they are mainly workers and he gave the plan to establish a memorial for Allameh Tabrasi, the owner of the protest, whose tomb is around Qaim Shahr and asked me for help. I helped.

In the evening, Dr. [Abdullah] Jasbi, [President of the Islamic Azad University] came and explained the document that was obtained and shows that he has planned a movement to incite Ayatollah Montazeri to start opposing the leadership, as well as the plans to attract professors to the Islamic Azad University and deal with the obstacles that the left forces may create in the management centers of higher education.

Mr. [Hossein] Pourmohammadi, a tailor, came from Qom; To test the cloaks he sews for my mountain climbing. Mohsen, [the head of my office] came. We talked about Ramadan programs. According to today's reports, the decision of the D8 group in Cairo is to remove Türkiye from the group - because of its cooperation with Israel - and move its center from Türkiye to Iran. It snowed well last night.