Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – February 12, 1999

I listened to Radio [Voice] of America and BBC. Ahmed, the son of Mr. Mohsen Rezaei, had an interview with American Radio. After staying in Costa Rica for four months with Hejbar Yazdani Bahai, he returned to America and renewed the spraying. His father thought that he had dissuaded him and that he was reforming. In this interview, he also badmouthed his father and introduced him as responsible for the murders, etc., and praised Hejbar and emphasized on continuing to oppose the regime, and introduced two of the people who were accused of being Iranian spies, and... I had already warned Mr. Rezaei that Hejbar Yazdani is not trustworthy.

BBC had also organized a radio conference and round table between [Ebrahim] Yazdi, [Abdul Karim] Lahiji, [Farrokh] Naghdar and [Saeed] Shahsundi; Although it was interesting, it had no content and they were talking superficially. Baqir Moin was in charge.

I went to Tehran University for Friday prayers. I delivered both sermons about the revolution and the factors of its victory and continuation. Mohsen, [CEO of Tehran Metro Company], who had returned from Dubai, came. He had gone to check the supply of escalators in the subway. He said, a lot of capital has gone from Iran to the other side of the water. In the afternoon and evening, some children and relatives came.

It was in the news that today Mr. Seyedhadi Khamenei, [president's adviser], brother of Rahebi and managing director of Jahan Islam newspaper, was beaten and injured in Qom's Mohammadiye Mosque and was taken to the hospital. He had gone to Qom to give a speech at the gathering of leftist forces.