Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – February 28, 1994

As usual, most of the time was spent meeting the members of parliament. Mr. Mobini, the representative of Shahrekord, came. He thanked the construction plans of the province and requested some industrial plans for the machines. He asked for my opinion about the administrative structure and said about changing the governor.

[Mr. Seyyed Mohammad Hassan Alavi Hosseini], the representative of Gorgan came. He had arguments for Gorgan to become a province. [Mr. Majid Naderi], the representative of Boyinzahra, came. He criticized a lot of the policy of the majority of the parliament and the person of Mr. Natiq [Nuri] for his unreasonable efforts to gain power. He praised Mr. [Hasan] Rouhani. He mentioned some examples.

[Mr. Asadullah Razavi, Mansour Soleimani and Majid Dabstani], the representatives of Kerman, Shahrbabak and Bam came. To determine the governor of Kerman, they appealed to their own line and expressed concern about the government of the opposite line. Mr. Dr. [Syed Mohammad Reza] Mowalizadeh, the representative of Ahvaz, came. He praised the government's programs in general and expressed his displeasure at the oppression of the government in advertising and had suggestions to explain and advertise more for the government's major works. He expressed his satisfaction with the progress of the fifth bridge of Ahvaz and the sewage program of the city.

Mr. [Syed Mohammad] Mirmohammadi, [the new Secretary General of the Administrative and Employment Affairs Organization of the country] came. He said the report of preliminary measures in the Employment Affairs Organization. He asked about my policies and asked for help to solve the deficiencies. Today, the price of the currency has increased by leaps and bounds. I told Dr. Adeli to think about it. In the evening, in the meeting of the Economic Council, we discussed the causes of currency fluctuations and the ways to cure them, but it was not finished.

I was a guest of the leadership. We talked about the status of cash currency, some movies like "Baduk", "From Karkheh to Rhine" and "Green Ashes" and we read some of the book of interpretation of my guide to get to know them. I came home Dr. Adeli took the name of some of the big government companies on the phone that have gone to the market to get foreign currency.