Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – February 26, 1990

I reached my office at half past eight in the morning. [Mr. Mike Moore] Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of New Zealand came. He talked about the development of relations and asked for my opinion about developments in the East and relations with the West. [Mr. Mahmoud Hojjati] the governor of Sistan and Baluchistan and [Mr. Abdullah Nouri] the minister of the interior came. [The governor] spoke about the province's development potential and asked for help to implement the program plans, which usually have not been implemented there due to the delay. We decided to have a trip there.

Mr. Masih Mohajeri [president's social advisor] came. Regarding the statements of Mr. [Ahmed] Azari [Qami] before the [sermons] of Friday prayers in Tehran and Mr. [Mahdi] Karroubi's answer to him, he expressed his concern about the development of disputes and appealed to the [Islamic Republic] newspaper. Mr. [Mohammed Ali] Nazaran came for the budget of the army information protection series. Mr. [Syed Jamal] Sadatian [Head of the Office of Presidential Advisers] came for the affairs of the Office of Advisers.

In the evening, the Economic Council had a meeting. The proposal to increase the price of electricity and fuel was opposed. They decided to invest with a bank loan. A decision was made about the prices of all types of cars and also the rates of travel. After the council, we negotiated the price of gas exported to the Soviet Union in the presence of the ministers of oil, foreign affairs and economy. It was decided that the price of each million B. T. U should be at least 1.8 dollars; The Russians say 1.44 and we said 2.3 dollars.

I came home at night. In the reports, the news of the defeat of the left-wing Sandenistas in Nicaragua against the right-wing rivals supported by the United States is at the top of the news.

The publication of the report of [Reynaldo] Galindopel, the special representative [of the Commission on Human Rights] of the United Nations [on Iran] to investigate the situation of human rights in Iran, has caused the anger of the anti-revolutionary and our enemies, who have been spreading their propaganda for a long time. Although there have been some negative points under the influence of propaganda, they are very dull and lackluster and they have started accusing him of collusion and he has been accused of doing business with Iran. This will also be detrimental to the counter-revolution.