Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – February 12, 1987

We came to the assembly in the morning. The representative of Nahavand appealed for the problems of that city that have arisen as a result of the bombing. He spent most of the evening reading reports and doing war affairs. Our embassy in England informed me that the head of the Canterbury Church wrote a letter to me and asked me to help save Terry Waite [an English priest] and in return expressed his willingness to help save [Ahmed] Metuslian and [Seyd Mohsen] Mousavi in ​​Lebanon. It is a good way to raise the issue of our forgotten people in Lebanon who were apparently kidnapped by the phalanxes.

Mr. [Hossein] Kamali [Tehran representative] came. He appealed for the financial source of the unemployment insurance bill and talked about the extravagance of spending on the front. Mr. Shamkhani informed that the operation has been delayed. An Iraqi plane dropped several bombs in Tehran, killing six people and injuring many others. We also hit Baghdad with a missile.

In the evening, Dr. Velayati came and said that the Russians have accepted the condition of the presence of their foreign minister in the reception and have included the meeting with the prime minister in the program. They were supposed to go. I made some remarks about Fimabin issues, including emphasizing the necessity of Soviet neutrality in the war or equal treatment, pointing to our cooperation with the Syrians and Libyans in Iraq after Saddam, and threatening the possibility of the Iranian people's hatred against the Soviets, due to Iraq's attacks on cities and the possibility of receiving defensive weapons from the West in case the evils continue.

I worked in my office until half past seven. Electricity was cut off in Tehran and a large part of the country.