Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – January 19, 1994

[Mr. Yuan Aung and Sang Yul Lee], the ambassadors of Vietnam and South Korea came to say goodbye. Messrs. [Hamid] Mirzadeh and [Ali Mohammad] Noorian came. They gave a report on the preparatory measures for the establishment of Kish University and expressed concern about the lack of cooperation of the new administrators. I said they will cooperate. Directors of Imam Khomeini International University (RA) and Imam Juma and representatives of Qazvin city came. They reported work and asked for more credits and support. Chastity, Fati and Ali came in the afternoon.

In the evening, we had approvals in the meeting of the government board. In the evening, the central council of the militant clergy community had a meeting in my office. Mr. [Mohammad Reza] Mahdavi [Kani] gave a report about an extreme group of students of Imam Sadiq University who have been disturbing the university administration in the past. They had locked the rooms at night and threatened them, and recently they had attacked the British and French embassies and had spread bad notices, similar to the Furqan group, and they had been arrested. Mr. [Mohammed] Yazdi gave a report on the debates of the community of teachers [Qom University] about authority. Then we discussed this matter and it was suggested to leave the situation alone; As in the past, the discussion remained unfinished.

Mr. [Sidhadi] Khosrow Shahi had returned from Umrah, he said that the floor of the Imam's grave in Baqi' has been cemented and the faces of the graves have been erased and the window of Hazrat Zahra's (S) tomb, which was open to the mosque, has been closed.