Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 31, 1992

A group of Sunni scholars came from Sistan and Baluchistan province. While expressing their loyalty, they complained that Sunnis are not given important and managerial positions and asked to be trusted more. While accepting their proposal, I said that the lack of specialized and educated people among them is one of the main factors of this situation. In addition, because it is heard that some Sunni scholars do not sanction smuggling, this weakens trust. They also asked for the construction of the mosque and educational issues.

The prosecutor of Tehran and the special prosecutor of the special court for the families of the martyrs came. While reporting on the wrong situation of the judicial handling of their violations in the past, they talked about their successes and commented that the situation of the families of the martyrs is morally good and the violations are less than others.

Mr. [Gholamreza] Ansari, the charge d'affaires of Iran in England, came. He suggested that if the British are officially told that the Imam's ruling on Salman Rushdie cannot be withdrawn, but the government does not take any action, they are willing not to pursue the issue. I said that this is the truth and they know it too, and if they say so themselves, we will not deny it.

Mr. [Mohammedreza] Nouri [Shahrudi], our ambassador in Libya, came and gave their report in the conditions of embargo. Finally, they are tolerating the problems well and have more expectations and hopes from us; I said to be more active. Messrs. [Massoud Roghani] Zanjani, [Mohammed] Gharehi, [Minister of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones], [Mohsen Hashemi, Head of the Office of] Special Inspector [of the President] and [Mohammed Reza] Nematzadeh, [Minister of Industries] and their experts came. There was a discussion about the plan to buy six million phones by telecommunications. Finally, we reached a good conclusion. It was decided to act as reasonably as possible, the need determined by the company's assembly and based on the company's own capital and not the government's aid, and by maintaining the production power of the country, according to the possible plan to establish a mobile phone network.

Mr. [Mahmoud] Vaezi and [Mohammed Javad] Zarif came from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They commented that it would be better for me to participate in the summit conference in Senegal that Mr. [Turgut] Özal, [President of Türkiye] requested. Last night, we discussed this with Ayatollah Khamenei over the phone, and we collectively came to the conclusion that I will not participate personally, but Dr. [Hasan] Habibi, [First Vice President], should go with Mr. Velayati.

I did the work until half past four. I came home The office engineers came to see the house in order to modify the building.