Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – December 4, 1992

After the prayer, I walked a bit by the sea. I spent some time working. Reading last week's bulletins took most of today's time. I was behind because of the trip to Yazd. After breakfast, I went to the sea. I spent a lot of time with jet skiing and swimming in the sea. The air is good and the water is very clean and clear.

I went in the evening and visited the building under construction of the university, the hospital and the desalination plants. Our own engineers have been able to make water softeners similar to imported units, which are of good quality. I encouraged them; It is an important job.

Then we went on a boat and spent an hour in the sea. The ship belongs to the navy. They have established a company called Safina al-Najat and have used some of the naval units that we bought during the war for military support in transportation. The CEO explained. They were satisfied, but complained about the non-cooperation of the Ports and Customs Organization. They need a wharf in Khark for the transportation of Kish, which is supposed to be done with the help of the [Free Zone Organization] of Kish.

Several managers of the active private sector in Kish came. They had suggestions to make Kish more active; including canceling the regulations on card sales and instead imposing duties on goods imported to Kish, non-competition of the Kish Civil Organization with the private sector, allowing swimming, which has been banned for several months, and preventing the smuggling of goods in Qeshm and the sale of land to the people.

We had dinner in Kish. We flew to Tehran at eight o'clock in the evening. The airport runway does not have lights for night flights. They had put a hand lamp. We reached home at eleven o'clock at night. It rained yesterday and the ceiling above the bed in the bedroom is leaking and the bed is wet.