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Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – February 14, 1989

خاطرات اکبر هاشمی
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It is snowing heavily. It has been coming continuously for two days. I think we haven't had this heavy snow in the past few years. We left at nine in the morning. Passing was difficult. I went to Shahid Motahari High School. In the guilds seminar, about the problems caused by extreme high prices and the ways

It is snowing heavily. It has been coming continuously for two days. I think we haven't had this heavy snow in the past few years. We left at nine in the morning. Passing was difficult. I went to Shahid Motahari High School. In the guild seminar, I gave a speech about the problems caused by extreme high prices and the ways to cure them.

I went to the parliament. [Brigadier Jalali] Minister of Defense came. Reported the trip to Gabon. He had gone to a gun show. It was negotiated for the affairs of the army. The president of Gabon asked him for a carpet as a gift, and some countries asked for weapons and training. He claims that Iran's weapons stand was the first after France.

Mr. Engineer [Akbar] Turkan [CEO of the Defense Industries Organization] came and discussed the contract for the purchase of Yugoslavian M-84 tank technology. In the evening, Mr. Aghazadeh and Dr. Velayati came. They reported their trip to Italy, England, Oman and America. The Secretary-General [of the United Nations] thinks that the Iraqis are speaking from a softer position than in the past and quoted Saddam as saying that the two sides should speak their minds about the Shatt al-Arab until the end, but the rest will be done. Oman's envoy is planning to go to Saudi Arabia to get their answers about Hajj. Mr. Ali Jannati came for the affairs of the command office.

Mr. Mohsen Rezaei and Rahim Safavi came from the IRGC. They wanted to speed up the decision regarding the final status of the IRGC. They believe that the current situation weakens the IRGC. Mr. [Mohsen] Nurbakhsh [Vice Chairman of the Parliament's Program and Budget Commission] came. He is going to Japan on my behalf to participate in the reconstruction seminar. He consulted about his trip. [Mrs. Mohammad Hossein Pudina, Gholam Ali Shahraki and Amir Mir] representatives of Zabul and Zahedan came and complained to the governor [of Sistan and Baluchistan] for not employing local forces.

At night, I went to the meeting of the Expediency Council. There was a discussion about the coordination of foreign information and also about the powers of government punishments in the control of government organizations. At the end of the night, Mr. [Mohammed Ali] Ansari called from the Imam's house and said that the Imam had sent a message to take a firm action on Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses book. Due to the ice on the streets, the security guards did not see it advisable for us to go home. We slept the night in the parliament.

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