Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 4, 1984

Early in the morning, I went to the parliament. In the reports, the hijacking of a Kuwaiti plane with 155 passengers and 11 crew members and the arrival of the [hijacked plane] to Mehrabad Airport were mentioned. I stayed in the public meeting [Islamic Council] until ten o'clock in the morning and then I came to my office. Mr. [Ahmed] Beheshti, the representative of FASA, whose credentials were in question [at the public meeting of the Islamic Council], was upset by my absence. Since he knows that I respect him, he expected me to stay in the meeting; [because] I had urgent work [couldn't attend the meeting].

In the afternoon, Mr. Mousavi, the representative of Ramhormoz, came. He expressed his displeasure about inflation, the weaknesses of [government] departments, the IRGC, the war, and the budget. By giving explanations, I satisfied [him] a little. Mr. [Syderreza] Zavarahi [Tehran's representative] came and talked about the weakness of the government and [the possibility of] the risk of public discontent, and in this case he did not have a specific proposal, except for changing the government, that too without having a successor. I said: the government is permanent; The solution is to cooperate with it.

In the evening, Mr. [Hadi] Maravi, a judge and head of the first branch of the Judges' Disciplinary Court, came and told about the weakness of the head of the second branch [of the Judges' Disciplinary Court]. Mr. Mir Mohammad Sadeghi [from Bazarian Tehran] came; The convoy's report gave assistance to the Kurdistan Front and the front's shortcomings and asked for help regarding the Chamber of Commerce - which has a dispute with the Minister of Commerce.

Mr. Mohammad Javad Hojjati Kermani, who recently became the president's cultural adviser and the scientific deputy of the Majlis [Islamic Council] library, came; He had no new words. His mood has improved. He spoke of the necessity of awakening against the conspiracy to create division, especially between me and Mr. [Ayatollah] Khamenei, and suggested the revival of the Arabic-to-Persian comprehensive book, which was started in the parliament library before the revolution.

At night, I stayed in the parliament. It is snowing. I inquired about the situation of the hijackers of the hijacked plane in Kuwait. They said that the plane hijackers are revolutionary Muslim Arabs and they want the freedom of their comrades from the Kuwaiti prison, who were arrested and sentenced after the explosion of the American embassy in Kuwait. [After hijacking the plane], they killed an American and handed over his body and released some [of the plane's passengers]. It is said that important Kuwaiti, Pakistani and American figures are hostages on the plane.