Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi - February 21, 2003

Mohsen Hashemi's report on the reformists' disagreements over the candidates of the Tehran City Council and the National Religious Company with the green light to participate in these elections

Continuation of the Margins of the IRGC Plane Crash

Mehdi Hashemi's report on the preparations for the publication of Hashemi's diaries of 1983

Full text of the diary:

At 7:30 a.m., we went to visit the underground halls, which are very large and huge. Mr. [Gholamreza] Aghazadeh was consulted about the negotiations with Mohammad ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who is in Iran and is coming to visit the site today. At 8:30 p.m., we left for Tehran. On the way, we saw the helicopters carrying Mr. ElBaradei's delegation going to Natanz.

 We arrived home at 11:30 a.m. He spent the night resting and studying at home. At night, Mohsen came. He talked about the candidates for the Tehran City Council and the disputes between the 2nd Khordad groups that led to the presentation of several separate lists. BBC Radio has interviewed Engineer [Ezzatollah] Sahabi, a national-religious activist, and Sahabi said that the national-religious people have resigned from their candidacy because the newspapers do not publish their advertisements.

 The news about the downed IRGC plane in the foreign media has become more widespread today, and is usually tainted by motives and linked to the visit of the Supreme Leader [to Sistan and Baluchistan province] and a group called the Abu Bakr Brigade has announced that they have shot down the plane by detonating a bomb in retaliation for the insults to Sunni sanctities and the arrest of al-Qaeda members in Iran. The newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat broadcast this announcement and the counter-revolutionary radios use it.

 In the United States, a large refinery in New York caught fire today, and so far there is no explanation about its casualties, and as a result of a large explosion in a nightclub, 95 people were killed and 150 injured, and caused the price of oil in the United States, which fell by two dollars yesterday.

Mehdi came and brought the book of 1983 called Tranquility and Challenge, which was compiled and published by the Ma'aref Enghelab Publishing Office. 
For the past few days, there have been reports about the arrival of 5,000 Badr Army forces in northern Iraq, which is an exaggeration.