Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 4, 1987

First, we went to Kerman airport and were sent off with an official ceremony. Then we flew to Chabahar with a dedicated air force plane. The temperature in Chabahar was 8 degrees above zero. It is usually 16 degrees in this season. From the base, we went by helicopter to the Corps dock in Chabahar Bay. This pier was built with the help of Yugoslavia; not bad They have a few small boats and a company of troops.

From there, we went by helicopter to the port in the last region of the southeast of the country. We negotiated with the IRGC and Gendarmerie officers and the people of the village. The village does not have proper electricity and water and the people live by fishing and they are all Sunnis. They said that their religious school has one hundred students and the public school has only eight students.

From there we went to the deserted port of Goatre, where there is only a gendarmerie base and a fishing building. In front of the important port of Pakistan, Gwatar is a sensitive place that needs to be revived. We returned to Chabahar Air Base. We had four helicopters, the best of which is from the Ministry of Petroleum and has two engines and a means of sitting on water.

After lunch and rest, we visited the scramble operation and the flight of an F-4 aircraft. It took 12 minutes. Then we visited the radar that was recently put into operation by insiders, and then we went to see the half-finished naval base; It is very broad. The American contractor fled after the victory of the revolution and has a claim against us and we against him, which is in the Hague court. It was seen from the radar and the headquarters of the base.

In the guest house, we prayed the Maghrib prayer and then, in the presence of the naval and air commanders of the army, the naval commander of the IRGC, Sayad and Rouhani, there was a discussion about the possibility of the American threat to this region and how to defend and counter it. We got good results.

We came to Bandar Abbas by plane. We arrived at a quarter past eight in the evening and settled in the air base guest house. We took Iranian news and Voice of America and wrote today's memories. I did not bring my Basij clothes. I am forced to wear army uniforms, and this makes the soldiers uncomfortable, as they often suggest that I wear Basiji uniforms, but we don't have the right size uniforms.