Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – February 25, 1992

Together with Efat, we arrived at the [Mehrabad] airport at seven in the morning and left for Dezful. A group of ministers, deputies and bodyguards were with them. It was an official welcome at Dezful Air Base. Due to heavy rain and cloudy weather, the helicopters did not come.

We immediately moved to Sedkarkheh for the start ceremony of the executive operation of the diversion channel. Corps is the contractor of the project. The relevant official explained about the dam; An earthen dam with a height of 128 meters is a reservoir with a capacity of seven billion cubic meters of water and four hundred megawatts of electricity and irrigation of two hundred thousand hectares of agricultural land.

Mr. [Bijan Namdar] Zanganeh, [Minister of Energy] reported and I spoke. Then by pressing the button and creating a huge explosion, the bulldozers started working.

We were supposed to go to Musian to check the reconstruction, but it was canceled because the helicopters did not arrive. The executive operation of the canalization of one piece was also opened under the contract of Jihad Sazendagi.

We returned to the base and flew to Abadan. There was an official welcome at the airport. To the hotel of residence and. Then from there we went to the pumping site of the important irrigation project of the island and Nakhilat. This plan was designed before the revolution. According to the explanation of the relevant engineer and the director general of power, instead of irrigation with tides, irrigation will be done with pipes and pumping in the future, and the cultivated area will be developed by 50%.

After prayer and lunch, we moved towards Choivbede port. In this port, many barges have been engaged in fishing recently and they were satisfied. From the houses in hand

We visited the village building, in the east of Bahman Shir, and also the reconstruction of the fields and farms that were destroyed during the war. People raised their problems.

We returned to Abadan via Khosroabad. After prayer and rest, a meeting of the reconstruction headquarters was held. Needs, problems and solutions were raised. I spoke briefly. It was decided that Sepah will open Arvand and Ahvaz-Khorramshahr road and Brij Street. I told Mr. [Mohsen] Rafiq Dost, [Chairman of Mustafafan Foundation] over the phone to rebuild the foundation's hotels. The last plan was to visit the city of Abadan and see the streets and people.